https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/ elfbiter - Dreamwidth Studios Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:41:30 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios elfbiter personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/7491818/2170751 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10977.html Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:41:30 GMT https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10977.html <b>Richard Wiseman</b> - <i>Luck Factor</i><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10977.html#cutid1">Actually noticing the gorilla still would not make me rich</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=10977" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10977.html baseless optimism feel good nonsense books perception reviews public 0 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/2472.html Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:42:42 GMT https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/2472.html <b><i>Oliver Sacks</i></b> - The Mind's Eye<br /><br />Book is very similar to the <i>Man Who Took His Wife for a Hat</i> and <i>Anthropologist in Mars</i> and actually refers to those books several times in notes and footnotes. In fact, the amount of notes has apparently increased. One chapter can now be expanded from a fate of a single patient to numerous other historical examples. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/2472.html#cutid1">How to see and not to see</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=2472" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/2472.html reviews oliver sacks neurology blindness perception vision books public 0