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Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb

By Mike Holderness

2 February 2005

Computer publisher O’Reilly branches out with Mind Hacks ($24.95), in which writers Tom Stafford and Matt Webb tick off 100 “neat hacks” – performed either by minds in finding a world in the blooming, buzzing confusion of the senses, or by cognitive psychologists in working out what these are. It makes a wonderful annotated bibliography, with a light touch and hackish humour that inspires further reading.

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