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Jim Davies is a cognitive scientist living in Ottawa and a member of the Lyngarde writer’s group. His plays have been produced by Push Push Theatre in Atlanta, Sock 'n' Buskin in Ottawa, Chicago’s Otherworld Theatre Company, The Oak theatre in Atlanta, and the Critical Stage Company in Kingston. His poetry has appeared in Bywords literary magazine and Altered Reality Magazine. He is author of the serialized fiction series Eve Pixiedrowner and the Micean Council, an urban animal fantasy, and is author of the popular science books Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe, Imagination: The Science of Your Mind’s Greatest Power, and Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You.