Joshua Foer

Joshua Foer appears in the following:

Never Quite Now

Friday, March 27, 2020

WNYC Studios
We keep missing the moment in the longest experiment in the world and find out "fast as thought" is not as fast as we thought.

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Exploring the Hidden Wonders of the World

Friday, September 23, 2016

"Atlas Obscura" takes us inside over 700 hidden places and celebrations in the world.

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Never Quite Now

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

How fast is the speed of thought? And what's the slowest experiment on the planet?

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Speed

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

The inhumanly fast world of high-speed trading, an excruciatingly slow experiment, and a physicist plays Zeus.

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The Memory Palaces

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

In 2006, science journalist Joshua Foer was crowned the United States Memory Champion in the "speed cards" event by memorizing a deck of 52 cards in 1 minute and 40 seconds. In his book, Moonwalking with Einstein, he recounts his journey to the top and in the process reveals the topsy-turvy world of professional memorizers.

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