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“Gather yourself afresh.”— Derren Brown Derren Brown (@derrenbrown) is a psychological illusionist who can predict, suggest, and even control human behavior. Starting his TV career with shows such as Mind Control and Trick or Treat for Channel 4 (the UK’s equivalent of PBS), Derren has combined spectacular illusions with insights into how we see the world […]
The Fallen WomanFiona McIntoshPenguin, $34.99 Fiona McIntosh, the prolific bestselling author from South Australia, has more than 40 titles to her name, many of them historical romances. The Fallen Woman is as solidly constructed as any, and it combines with brio and assurance the kind of vivid historical world-building and the talent for romantic melodrama […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. I’m Shankar Vedantam. We’ve all been there: you park your car in a giant lot, only to come back […]