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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Some Books



Good NY Times review (by Alison Gopnik) of Stanislas Dehaene's fascinating "Reading In the Brain" HERE.

Also, "59 Seconds," the latest from the always-interesting (and quirky) British psychologist Richard Wiseman is now available in American bookstores.

And a review of new books from two popular physics bloggers below ["How To Teach Physics To Your Dog" (Chad Orzel) and "From Eternity To Here" (Sean Carroll)] :

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=2613


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