{"id":524,"date":"2010-06-30T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2010-06-30T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:30:46","slug":"a-slew-of-new-reviews-coming-right-at-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/a-slew-of-new-reviews-coming-right-at-you\/","title":{"rendered":"A slew of new reviews, coming right at you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, for the first time, Chris and I have been compared to sorcerers.  Below, you can read why and see some other highlights from a slew of great new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinvisiblegorilla.com\/reviews.html\">reviews<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinvisiblegorilla.com\">The Invisible Gorilla<\/a> out this week.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Changizi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/nature-brain-and-culture\/201006\/levels-real-world-wizardry-review-the-invisible-gorilla-chris-c\">reviewing<\/a> our book at Psychology Today, calls us sorcerers (in a good way).<\/p>\n<p>A couple reviews (<a href=\"http:\/\/deevybee.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/book-review-invisible-gorilla.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/alifelesssweet.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/disturbing-reality-of-how-our-brain.html\">here<\/a>) lauded our use of both anecdotes and science to explain how the mind works in an accessible and engaging way. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/entertainment\/books-and-literature\/article_22cab83f-c5cf-5f8d-b3c0-6dcabba174e7.html\">St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a> noted that our easy-to-understand book might lead to better driving while also derailing ponzi schemes. (presumably not at the same time &#8212; people aren&#8217;t so good at multitasking&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The reviewer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20627661.000-six-intuitions-you-shouldnt-trust.html\">New Scientist<\/a> is confident that the book changed his life (although he correctly acknowledges that his belief might be based on an illusion of confidence.)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2010\/062010\/06202010\/555295\">reviewer<\/a> for the Free Lance-Star in Fredricksburg Virginia said that if his college textbooks read like our book, he wouldn&#8217;t have sought solace in the novels of Sydney Sheldon and Stephen King.  We hope our book isn&#8217;t quite as scary as a King novel.<\/p>\n<p>The Scientific American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode.cfm?id=how-we-fool-ourselves-over-and-over-10-06-19\">60-second podcast<\/a> quoted one of my own idols for science communication, Richard Feynman, who aptly described the theme of our book, &#8220;The first principle is you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, for the first time, Chris and I have been compared to sorcerers.  Below, you can read why and see some other highlights from a slew of great new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinvisiblegorilla.com\/reviews.html\">reviews<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinvisiblegorilla.com\">The Invisible Gorilla<\/a> out this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}