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...Make Smart People Dumb,” the insights can be weighty and provocative. She posits that smart people behave stupidly precisely because they possess great intelligence. Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, is a prime example. The author’s creation was famous for debunking supernatural phenomenon by giving them rational explanations. Doyle himself, however was a disciple of the supernatural and a great believer in the fantastical apparitions revealed during seances. Though Holmes would argue that these visions were fraudulent, Doyle was able, by virtue of his staggering creative mind, to construct alternate versions of reality...
There’s a phenomenon in America that’s almost as shocking as discovering that Ben Franklin really did discover electricity by flying a kite in the rain. American readers are finally lifting the ban on the Dead White Male. And heralding his return is author H.W. Brands, whose 2000 release, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, was a Pulitzer prize finalist...
...professor at the University of Texas, Austin, is not surprising given the country’s odd new obsession with history. Doing to literary culture what Britney Spears did for music, a penchant for biographies averaging over 400 pages has made American history a sexy, best-selling pop phenomenon...
It’s probably a good sign that the feature seemed utterly irrelevant. What parent doesn’t already know about Eminem’s foul-mouthed verbal contortions and the whole Ruff Ryding suburban gangsta phenomenon? Never mind that hip hop has been, on and off, the leading artistic force in pop music for the past decade and a half. Never mind that Public Enemy and Timbaland have revolutionized our notions of musicality, that a multifaceted and vibrant youth culture has risen all over the world, and that fantastic new records are still released every couple...
...addition to being a master of traditional Chinese medicine, Kaptchuk is also an expert on the placebo effect—the phenomenon that results in people feeling healthier simply because they believe in the medicine they are using—and has published a number of articles on the subject. Kaptchuk continues to do research on the placebo effect, in addition to speaking, attending seminars and helping to run the Osher Foundation...