Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Tuesday, February 15, 2005

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Stanford: Mind Control in Theory and Practice: "Here were students who had spent months learning the techniques of mind control, with special emphasis on the evils of smoking, with the goal of being able to resist its power, and none of it had any effect!" [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]


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Malcolm Gladwell on Snap Judgments: "Women, it was believed, simply could not play like men. [...] They didn't have the strength, the attitude, the resilience for certain kids of pieces. Their lips were different. Their lungs were less powerful. Their hands were smaller. That did not seem like a prejudice. It seemed like a fact." [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]'