... give people more information and follow your hunch TED.

Tom had a hunch that Mary was seeing someone else.

I've learned to follow the hunch, but never assume where it will go.

And just because of someone's hunch, I wasn't going to give it up.

Chris Anderson Do you have a hunch or a hope for what the answer to that is?

And Darwin kept these copious notebooks where he wrote down every little idea he had, every little hunch.

We had to arrange the spaces so that they stacked on top of each other without needing to hunch down.

Now a couple of companies like Google they have innovation time off, 20 percent time, where, in a sense, those are hunch cultivating mechanisms in an organization.

News accounts depict hordes of emotional people trading on hunch and superstition. That looks a lot more like reality than all the talk of impending financial singularity.

But in fact, if you go back and look at the historical record, it turns out that a lot of important ideas have very long incubation periods I call this the slow hunch.

We've heard a lot recently about hunch and instinct and blink like sudden moments of clarity, but in fact, a lot of great ideas linger on, sometimes for decades, in the back of people's minds.

People often credit their ideas to individual Eureka! moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the liquid networks of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high velocity web.

I mean, here you have these guys who basically thought they were just following this hunch, this little passion that had developed, then they thought they were fighting the Cold War, and then it turns out they're just helping somebody find a soy latte.

They run some more of the numbers, and at the end of about three or four weeks, turns out they have mapped the exact trajectory of this satellite around the Earth, just from listening to this one little signal, going off on this little side hunch that they'd been inspired to do over lunch one morning.

The drop in the spot price of oil has taken it significantly below the five year forward price, which remains close to 80 per barrel. My hunch for 2015 is that oil prices may continue to drop in the short term unlike in the past four years, however, they are likely to finish the year higher than they were when it began.

Many people view the superstar city theory as confirming their hunch that, despite the current slowdown in home prices elsewhere (particularly in the United States), investors can expect to make huge long term gains by buying homes in these cities, even though the homes there are already expensive. But, as I have said in my debates with the authors, if one reads their paper carefully and thinks about the issues, one would see that there is no reason at all to draw such a conclusion.