I just finished reading
Decoding the Language of God: Can a Scientist Really Be a Believer? by George C. Cunningham, which was written as a rebuttal of
The Language of God by Francis S. Collins, which I read a couple of weeks ago. Now it's on to
WWW: Wonder, the third book in the wonderful WWW trilogy by award winning sci-fi novelist Robert J. Sawyer and
Ageless Memory: The Memory Expert's Prescription for a Razor-Sharp Mind by famed mnemonist, Harry Lorayne.
Decades ago I read
The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas, and I credit it with my perfect score on all tests I took in a college biology course I was taking at the time (with the exception of one test on which I got a 99—much to the instructor's delight
). I even surprised a few folks by doing things like memorizing the order of a deck of cards by looking at each one for a few seconds and then being able to list them in order or out of order (example: "What is the 22nd card in the deck?"—"The king of clubs."); something else the book taught. It's been years since I've been in practice, and as with all skills, they fade over time if not practiced, so I thought now would be a good time to reawaken them.