 | Moonwalking With Einstein | Joshua, a journalist, covers the US Memory Championships for a magazine and becomes interested in memory techniques and the strange collection of geeky characters who perform on the 'memory circuit'. He embarks on a training programme to improve his own memory, and decides to enter next year's Championship. | Good book. Lots of fascinating insights into how the brain works, and how little we know about it. Makes me want to go and learn something off by heart. A poem perhaps, or the order of a pack of shuffled cards, or maybe the population density of every country in the world... It did contain a couple of jarring errors, which seemed odd for a journalist (shouldn't he be good at checking his facts?) Kent is referred to as a town, and the Red Admiral described as a bird. Surely county and butterfly respectively? Read this during travel to Geoff and Catherine's house for a weekend. |
