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Most of us know very little about these killers as their motives and mental disarray have been overshadowed by the biographies of the assassins of lincoln and kennedy

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We read again about the variety of strange perceptual dysfunctions that can afflict people depending on what parts of their brains have been compromised

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You look at this interesting factoid on display – press this button and see what happens

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For one thing he only mentions oliver sacks once in a bibliographic citation of a magazine article that sacks wrote

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For kean to have written a book about mindbrain function without mentioning sacks is like writing a book about relativity without mentioning einstein

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Then while keans usual pages of endnotes are well worth reading they include a strange outburst against polygraph examiners

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Still keans vulgar outrage hits the reader like a slap in the face

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For example kean says that people such as memoryman shereshevsky people who cant forget anything suffer as great a tragedy as people who cant remember anything