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Who Hates Whom
Who Hates Whom:

Well-Armed Fanatics,
Intractable Conflicts,

and Various Things Blowing Up
A Woefully Incomplete Guide™

“Revelatory... Harris's sly wit and infectious curiosity make understanding world chaos fascinating... witty, horrific, and necessary.”

-- Boston Globe


"Brave... irreverent... charges into the thick of the globe's myriad simmering wars... hilariously relaxed."

-- New York Observer


“Fascinating, enlightening, and surprisingly: NOT TOTALLY DEPRESSING.”

-- John Hodgman,
author, The Areas of My Expertise and correspondent for The Daily Show

 


"A rollicking ride of intellectual discovery and emotional growth... his comic timing never fails"
-- The Wall Street Journal

"A surprisingly touching memoir"
-- Entertainment Weekly

"Effortlessly funny and informative... tender, human, and very wise... A must for anyone who loves Jeopardy!, or has ever seen it, or is breathing."
-- Joss Whedon, creator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer


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Who Hates Whom




Prisoner of Trebekistan


Panic



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Helping my friend Howard win $250,000 on Millionaire

Home Book Blog I just hope I can remember where I'm supposed to be
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If the Yale thingy wasn't cool enough, now there's this, and I'm jazzed:

Thanks to the discussion of memory techniques in Prisoner of Trebekistan, I've just been invited to speak to a cognitive science class at UCLA.

Neat!

When I was a kid, I was always told what to learn, but rarely how.  Some of the stuff in Trebekistan, particularly around chapter nine, has a lot of the how and even some of the why and when.

One of the reasons I wrote the book is that I dearly want everybody to know how to remember stuff better.  Learning how has made a big difference in my life.  (Although if you saw me blow a big Final clue in last year's Ultimate Tournament of Champions, you know it hasn't been quite as much as I'd like.)  The stuff I found out might help you or your family, too.  Hope so.


 

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