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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War AmericaYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Allen M Hornblum, Judith L Newman and Gregory J DoberBenji Waterhouse

|genre=Politics and SocietyPopular Science|summary=If I told you that doctors had been using human beings in the most horrible of medical experiments, that they had done things like tie toddlers was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to beds Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to insert live pathogens Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into their eyesthe workings of the NHS, injected children with radiation, sterilised those thought humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be subhuman Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and even castrated the work of a child just psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to get be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a supply of tissue for situation rather than a lab experiment, you might very reasonably assume I am talking abut Nazi Germany. I am notperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230341713</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=God Versus Particle PhysicsCharles, The Alternative Prince: A No-Score DrawAn Unauthorised Biography|author=John DaviesEdzard Ernst

|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''God Versus Particle Physics: A No Score DrawCharles, The Alternative Prince'' is a boldcritically assesses the Prince's opinions, witty beliefs and undoubtedly controversial book that questions our blind faith in science. Davies, a psychologist, analyses aims against the subject in detail, creating some interesting and convincing arguments concluding that some background of the latest theories in the realm scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of physics seem treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to border on the metaphysical, lacking any kind reputation of demonstrable proof. He reasons that many a man who is proud of the arguments used by prominent atheists, demanding his refusal to apply evidence that God exists-based, can also be applied logical reasoning to ideas such as the Big Bang, parallel universes, dark matter and the Higgs Boson, ironically known as the ''God particle''his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845405587</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Sea MonstersVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Lore and Legacy Invisible World of Olaus Magnus's Marine MapGerms|author=Joseph NiggIsabel Thomas|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=A confession'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. When reading hardbacks I take In the paper cover, if there is one, off, first book in what looks to keep it pristine. Sometimes there's be a second benefitvery promising new series, with [[Longbourn by Jo Baker]] as an example OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of having an embossed illustration underneath, or suchlikegerms. But with this book I won't be alone, for We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the cover folds out into an amazing artwork, such as thinking has only two extant original copiesdeveloped over time. ItThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's speak like a coloured replica of a large map scientist' which explains some of the northern seas trickiest concepts and Scandinavia, dating from 1539, and is in a category of three major artful scientific papers from where the whole you'here ll soon be dragons' cliché about maps comes from. Its creator, Olaus Magnus, followed it up years later familiar with a commentary of all the sea creatures he drew on itbacteria, but Magnus has waited centuries for this delicious volume to commentate on both togetherfungi, in such a lovely fashionprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Roberts and Shelley Evansgareth_steel|title=The Book of Fungi: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species From Around The WorldNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Fungi are the fifth order of the natural kingdom and it’s estimated that there are approximately one and I don't often begin my reviews with a half million species, found throughout the worldwarning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. ‘’The Book Stories of Fungi’’ looks at six hundred of the known fungi a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and each Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is pictured at its actual size in full colour and there’s definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a scientific explanation of its distribution, habitat, formTV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, spore colour and edibilityas do other similar programmes. The tone of Gareth Steel says that the book is academic but don’t let this put you off not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - before I began reading my knowledge was broadly restricted to knowing agree with him. He says that he's written it was better to discover fungus growing outside your house than attached to the structure inside - inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and I found distressing issues but it interestingdoesn't lack sensitivity, entertaining (which I didn’t expect) although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and accessibleeating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005858</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241480442|title=Paralysed with FearHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Gareth WilliamsNiko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=Gareth WilliamsEmotionally, author of ''Angel of Death''I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, turns his focus I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the history of the plague odd blip with regard to that cheese but then a perfect storm of polio in ''Paralysed with Fearthose events which you hope don''. From the first report of a case t occur too often in 1700your lifetime tempted me back to animal-Strasbourg, right through to polio in the present day, he traces polio’s progression past age limits, socioeconomic boundaries and geographical bordersbased protein. Almost more intriguing, though, is It wasn't the insight we receive to taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the cutanimal kingdom -throat competition between scientists who sought it was the ease of being able to use polio as get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a means for making historyfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137299754</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John D BarrowDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=MathleticsA Tattoo on my Brain

|genre=SportAutobiography|summary=As Alzheimer's is a sports fan disease that slowly wears away your identity and a maths teachersense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, I was thrilled to get the chance to read as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a book which claims to give us 'surprising and enlightening insights into statue over time affected the world of sports'elements. This is rather a frustrating read because it It seems to have got the balance wrong in many cases. There are some chapters which are so short as to be barely worth reading – one merely points out if nature wants that while humans can’t run as fast as cheetahs or perform gymnastics as amazing as that of a monkey, we’re better all-rounders than any other animalfinal victory over you and your dignity. This is true, but hardly seems worth wasting a page on, it’s what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so obviousadmirable. Then there are other chapters, like the interesting one detailing the points scoring system in the decathlon, which are good but could have been much better given more space. The decathlon one Daniel Gibbs is a prime example of this – it’s five pages, so one of the book’s longer sections, but could surely have been excellent if it had gone into more detail. I can’t help thinking that dropping half of the sections neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and doubling the other half has documented his journey in length might have been the way to go here''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584239</amazonuk>1108838936

Until the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The statement has lost a little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the nature of psychopathy. It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-life Hannibal Lecter, but the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr David Lewis1849767343|title=Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do ItCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=How many times have we asked ourselves ''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the question:written word''.

I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting'Why did : I do that?prefer the word 'painful' Most but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration of the time, the question is a response to history of a sudden inexplicable impulse or urge on our part. That extra helping problem which has defeated some of chocolate cakethe best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, that flirtation with the guy in book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the office, or that must-have item in changing medical attitudes as the supermarket trolley may all be causes for regret once our rational brain kicks inproblem itself. But why is it that we humans are often slaves to our base instinct?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946852</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter1776572858|title=The Norm Chronicles: Stories How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and numbers about dangerDon Bartlett (translator)

|summary=IWe are living in a time of rapid change, and we'd like you to meet Normre worried about it. He's an absolutely average kind of guyDorling tells us that the latter is normal, thirty one years old, 5'9”, a touch over thirteen stone natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and he works a thirty-nine hour week with the occasional treat current state of a bar of milk chocolatewhat we're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. OhHowever, over the next three-hundred-and he's ambivalent about Marmite - couldnsome pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't care one way be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we're worrying about the other - can take it or leave itwrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In ''The Norm Chronicles'' we hear fact, the story rate of his life change in many things is slowing down and the lives direction of his friends Prudence (the name tells you what you need to know) and Kelvin, whochange will in some cases go into reverse.|isbn=0300243405}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4|genre=Children's a dareNon-devilFiction|summary=Emily found words ''useful'', hard-living kind of guybut counting was what she loved best. ItObviously, you can count anything and there's the story of the hazards they face - some real no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and some imagined - began counting in every aspect of their livestwos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. And along with these stories are Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''realthreeven'' facts about . (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the reality odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the risks they takeeven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686202</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristine Barnett1910593508|title=The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins

|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=The tutor stands at This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the front of Moon landings and the passion for the university classsubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, frantically scribbling equations on the large whiteboard in front of himChris Baker and Mike Collins. He This is a story we know well respected by his students; an expert in several fields, including general relativity, string theory, quantum field theory and biophysics. In factbecause of this, he recently unveiled the authors take a brand new theory few narrative shortcuts knowing that may put him we can fill in line for the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a Nobel Prizegraphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999308719Oh|title=Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and did companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For many years now I've (half) joked that I forget intended to mention live forever and that he is so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 14 years old?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241145627</amazonuk>101 tips.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Stewart1847941834|title=The Great Mathematical ProblemsAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=34.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=I joked with a friend when I first got the book 've said this before but there are some books that ''The Great Problems'' may be a step too far for meyou seek out, some books that you stumble across and perhaps I should wait for Stewart to release a book called ''The Fairly Good Mathematical Problems'' as it would be closer to my level. While I originally said it in jestsome books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, by chapter four or so I was starting to think I'd been closer to the truth than I'd realised - Stewart seemslike, somewhat surprisingly given his past success with books like the brilliant [[Professor Stewartright now! 's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart|Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures]], to have pitched this book about the Atomic Habits'really big questions in mathematics' at an extremely high level. With just a degree in mathematics and nearly ten years worth of experience teaching the subject, I found it something of a slog to get through, with many concepts being difficult to grasp, is in particular the Mordell conjecturelast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681995</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven StrogatzHoneyborne BlueII|title=The Joy of XBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Steven StrogatzYou may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, awardbut it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema -winning professor, takes us on you barely got a tour TV series worthy of mathematicsa numbered sequel, and how it relates to our everyday life, never in this fascinating bookthe world of non-fiction. Split into six sectionsIf someone has made a nature series about, 'Numbers'say, Alaska (and boy aren'Relationships't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, 'Shapes'why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, 'Change', 'Data' the energy and 'Frontiers'the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, itthe BBC's an engaging and well-presented read, with short chapters which make it easy to dip intoBlue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878435</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Restak and Scott Kim1783099593|title=How Puzzles Improve Your Brain: The Surprising Science of the Playful BrainSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=Many people in the first flush of youth will read this book to find ways 'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of increasing their brain powergender. Others - like me - It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the other end workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the age continuum will read because they're looking for ways mid-twentieth century to restrict or even reverse what they see as deterioration. Both groups might initially be disappointed as the title suggests that the book is about puzzles, but don't give up as the reality is far more usefulpresent day. This is a book about how our brains ''work''Reading it, how we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the different parts interact or come into play in certain circumstances - and then there are some puzzles directed at improving performance in those areasKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285641751</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas WrightCampbell_Astra|title=CirculationAd Astra: William Harvey's Revolutionary IdeaAn illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell

|summary=After many years of discussion of climate change it's easy So… you want to assume that this is a book about leave the planet? Before you do you''climate'' but it's not - or only indirectly. It's about how we live with ''weather'' and our reactions to it and climate comes into d better study the discussion only as an examination whole history of our reaction human space flight to get up to the changesspeed. You might have heard the essays which were broadcast in That could take a five part BBC Radio 3 series ''Changing Climates'' which ran in February 2013, but as always with Richard Mabey, his words warrant thought and examination which can't be accommodated by the spoken word.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250529</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean M Twenge and W Keith Campbell|title=The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Twenge and Campbell have been studying the rise in narcissism as while… if only there was a social trend. They are well-qualified to comment, having worked since 1998 with social psychologist Roy Baumeister, who pioneered research in this field. At more than three hundred pages handy guide that could condense it's rather weighty all down for the popular market at which it's aimed, but even if you only dip into . Enter Dallas Campbell with this book, I think you'll take home their message: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416575987</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Damian O'BrienAdrian_Sock|title=If Houses Why Not Mouses?Sock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian

|summary=I once dedicated an entire linguistics essay to the plural The subject of sheepthis book has been around for several millennia, in particular and yet my older sister’s youthful fascination with partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it all. ''One sheep, two sheepor them. No two sheeps. That sillyIt'' etc etc. So when this book arrived s something I thought it perfectly plausible that the author had written an extended investigation into house/housesuse for about 200 days of every year, mouse/mice. at a guess (No two mouses? That silly.) What well, I discovered on making have my way through self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the pages, however, is that there is a lot more to this book that irregular plurals opposite end of the 3-yearscale to well-oldknown mass-befuddling kind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909395595</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel J Barrett|title=MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond)|rating=5|genre=Reference|summary=I don't usually open reviews by explaining how I came to read a particular bookmurderer of women, Ted Bundy, but on this occasion it will help you who was into stealing credit cards to judge whether or not this book is suitable for you if you know where I'm coming from. Back in 2006 three people got together and between them they built fund his desire of having a site - let's call it [http://wwwfresh pair every single day.thebookbag.co.uk The Bookbag]. In On which subject, the early days Bookbag was for fun: it was rather like Everest. We did it because it ''amount of them we create every year could'' be there and we wanted stack to see if what we (loosely) had in mind could be done. It was a simple HTML site and I had no problems in mastering the technicalities. I'd built the site under instruction freaking moon and I knew it inside outmore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0596519796</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joel Levy|title=Why?|rating=5|genre=Trivia|summary=Why does the Titanic float but Some idiots buy more than six pairs a brick sink? And that water they’re sinking or floating inyear, why is it wet? And what colour is itapparently, ‘cos it ain’t clear? These questions and many more are answered in this book which may not be a new concept but which is executed extremely wellplain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the humble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179512</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'HareGermano_Eye|title=Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?Eye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary=The annual New Scientist book is becoming a bit of a ritual for It's happened to me, and I hope like as not it is for has or will happen to you , too. Each yearI mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and other problems, they collate I've had different tests to check the best questions pressure inside my eye, and answers I've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the time, but certainly benefit from their Last Word columnon holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and each year beyond that I heartily recommend 've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that you pick it updiminish in size, or give it to someone as a Christmas presentprove to the relevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. This year is no exceptionOf course, as we find out whether weit'll ever speak dolphins not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, all the ins changes other people made to it, and outs of James Bondthe cultural impact it's vodka martini, and had are all on these eye- most importantly - detailed information from a dishwasher expert about how to deal with tinned spinachopening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125026X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris WaringBall_Wonders|title=From 0 to Infinity in 26 CenturiesWonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=45

|summary=I quite like Maths and ILike many people of a ''m not bad at it at a basic levelcertain age, which is useful as '' I have a financial based job. But I recall the point at which Maths went from being easy fond memories of tuning in to incomprehensible for me; sometime over watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the Summer that feel between GSCE virtues of maths and A-Level standard. Then, as now, I never really wondered science; succeeding where Maths our schoolteachers had come from; I just worried why I suddenly couldnfailed and actually making these subjects ''fun.''t understand it any moreAlthough decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he has lost none of his passion and enthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178737</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David KaiserYong_Contain|title=How I Contain Multitudes: the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, microbes within us and the Quantum Revival|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=In his introduction Professor Kaiser states that there are three ways in which the west coast hippies have benefited the development of Physics; they opened up deeper speculation into the fundamental philosophy behind quantum theory, they latched on to a crucial theorem of Bell, about what Einstein termed ''spooky'' interactions between particles at a distance. This might otherwise have been totally neglected. Thirdly they propounded a key idea which has become known as the 'no-cloning theorem'. Kaiser tells a lucid account as might be expected from the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and department chief in the Massachusetts Institute grander view of Technology's program. Incidentally he also provides an engaging insight into the American industrial-military complex and associated institutions like the Californian University at Berkley.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039334231X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewlife|author=David Crystal|title=Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English SpellingEd Yong

|summary=Are The world you know is a speller? I must confess I'm not much of one myself, so the main lie. There is no such thing I was after from this book was an insight into the peculiarities of English spelling, and some hints and tips for remembering the rulesas good or bad microbes. Oh, Sickness and a fun, entertaining read at the same time (this is Crystal, after health are all)far more complex than we thought. I was not disappointedThings designed to save us may kill us and things we think would kill us may save us. (Even if I can still only spell disappointed with Welcome to the help modern study of my spellchecker)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685672</amazonuk>microbes.

{{newreview|author=Jim Holt|title=Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=In ''The Hitchhikers Guide Move on to the Galaxy'' Douglas Adam’s famously suggested that the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything was forty-two, although it quickly turns out nobody knows what the ultimate question is, rendering the answer meaningless. In ''Why Does the World Exist?'', Jim Holt explores potential answers to what could be considered the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything – why is there something, rather than nothing? And the answer’s certainly not forty-two.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682444</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Fernyhough|title=Pieces of Light: the New Science of Memory|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Over the years, I've seen the human memory at its best and worst. I watched my Nan suffer with Alzheimer's to the point she couldn't remember who anyone was, but also had a colleague who won a silver medal at the Memory Olympics for his ability to remember long strings of items. I also studied memory as part of a psychology degree but, perhaps ironically, I can no longer remember much of what I learned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668448X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Reference Reviews]]