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Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide
Others, including Priestley and both Darwins, used their commonplace books as a repository for a vast miscellany of hunches.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Joshua Foer, “Moonwalking with Einstein” (2011)
Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory


The discovery cut through the heart of the controversy.
James Gleick • Chaos: Making a New Science
were based on the study of epilepsy patients.