For those interested in improving your memory, NLP, sales techniques, religion, crystals, snake oil and improving your memory, I can heartily recommend the excellent Tricks of the Mind, by Derren Brown.
You’re not going to like it much if you’re into faeries, God, crystal healing, snake oil, reiki or stuff like that, but if you want to improve your memory and learn a few neat tricks, this is a good book.
But the last quarter of the book is which he calls a “rant” against pseudo-science, bad science, religion and all sorts of other dillusions, neatly disecting the mumb-jumbo and putting it firmly in its place. And gives some good ideas as to what to look out for, too.
Oh, and it’s 51% off at Amazon at the time of writing, so I’m fairly sure you won’t regret it for £3.94!
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Oddly enough I read this a couple of months ago. It is indeed excellent. Derren Brown is of the same school of magician-skeptics as Penn & Teller and James Randi.
Now let’s see… Telephone, sausage, monkey, button, book, cabbage, glass, mouse, stomach, cardboard, ferry, athlete, baby, wigwam, key… argh, what did I miss out?
Oddly enough I read this a couple of months ago and it is excellent. Derren Brown is from the same school of skeptic-magicians as Penn & Teller and James Randi.
Now let’s see… Telephone, sausage, monkey, button, book, cabbage, glass, mouse, stomach, cardboard, ferry, athlete, baby, wigwam, key… argh, what did I miss out?
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