How We Learn by Benedict Carey

Author:Benedict Carey [Carey, Benedict]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9389-9
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

Take that, Archimedes! That’s a stroke of mad kid-genius you won’t see in any study or textbook, nor in early discussions of the puzzle, going back more than a hundred years. He incubated that one all on his own.

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*1 Here’s a famous one that used to crease the eyebrows of my grandparents’ generation: A doctor in Boston has a brother who is a doctor in Chicago, but the doctor in Chicago doesn’t have a brother at all. How is that possible? Most people back then just assumed that any doctor must be a man, and thus came up with tangled family relations based on that mental representation. The answer, of course, is that the doctor in Boston is a woman.

*2 You find yourself in a stadium, in front of a crowd, a pawn in a cruel life-or-death game. The stadium has two closed doors, a guard standing in front of each one. All you know is that behind one door is a hungry lion, and behind the other is a path out of the stadium—escape. One guard always tells the truth, and the other always lies, but you don’t know which is which. You have one question you can ask of either guard to save your life. What’s the question?

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