MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN by Joshua Foer

Links for East Side Readers' March discussion

Slate Magazine bookgroup podcast

General

Discussion questions from LitLovers

Foer on Wikipedia

Foer on Facebook

Tweet Foer

Secrets of a Mind-Gamer - NYTimes Magazine : See Memorizing docs at the left

Texts & Reviews

Read the book here.

Foer's original article for Slate

Review - NYTimes and Other Times Review

Review at THE MILLIONS

MIND Reviews: Moonwalking with Einstein : Scientific American

Moonwalking Review — Mnemotechnics.org

New Statesman - A mind to remember

Wiki Info
Mnemonic

Idiot-savant (Wiki)

Memory palace.. method of loci

Daniel_Tammet - Wiki

Kim Peek - Wiki

Simon Baron-Cohen (Wiki)

Simonides of Ceos

Moonwalking on Wikipedia
Who Wrote The Iliad? 

Memory quizzes online
Now you try--> Memorize ## words in 5 minutes

Facebook Memory Game

Ed Cooke's website MEMRISE to practice memorizing.

Radio & Video
Foer on Diane Rehm Show (audio + transcript, etc.)

Video interview (1/2 hr) and misc links to the right

How To Improve Your Memory With the Memory Palace Technique (short video)

Foer describes how to conquer the OK Plateau (17 min video)

Joshua Foer videos on YouTube
Ed Cooke's Memory Tricks for Dyslexics

Other
2006 USA Memory Competition (video in several parts)

USA Memory Championship will be on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at Con Edison in NYC

In NYC next month....
Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer