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		Please note that the examples are not production code and have not been carefully testing. They are provided "as-is" and come with no warranty of any kind.

		<h2>Missing CD-ROM</h2>


		<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>
		<p>Birthing practices of the spotted hyena<br>
		<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Hyena">

		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Hyena</a></p>
		<h3>Introduction</h3>

		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMan-Who-Mistook-His-Wife%2Fdp%2F0684853949%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210107949%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">
		The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat</a> (Oliver Sacks)</p>
		<p>Book: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPhantoms-Brain-Probing-Mysteries-Human%2Fdp%2F0688172172%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210107769%26sr%3D1-19&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">Phantoms
		in the Brain</a> (V. S. Ramachandran)</p>
		<h3>Chapter 1</h3>

		<p>Brain weights of different animals<br>
		<a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html" target="_blank">
		http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html</a></p>

		<h3>Chapter 2</h3>
		<p>GI for different foods<br>
		<a href="http://www.glycemicindex.com" target="_blank">www.glycemicindex.com</a></p>
		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMindless-Eating-More-Than-Think%2Fdp%2F0553384481%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210169152%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">
		Mindless Eating</a> (Brian Wansink)</p>

		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDefense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto%2Fdp%2F1594201455%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210169208%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">
		In Defense of Food</a> (Michael Pollan)</p>

		<h3>Chapter 3</h3>
		<p>A study on chronic undersleeping<br>
		<a href="http://www.bioedonline.org/slides/slide01.cfm?tk=46&dpg=9" target="_blank">
		www.bioedonline.org/slides/slide01.cfm?tk=46&dpg=9</a></p>
		<h3>Chapter 4</h3>

		<p>Akiyoshi Illusions (rotating snakes and more)<br>
		<a href="http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/%7Eakitaoka/index-e.html" target="_blank">
		www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html</a></p>
		<p>Purves Labs (color illusions)<br>

		<a href="http://www.purveslab.net" target="_blank">www.purveslab.net</a> </p>
		<p>Michael Bach�s Illusions<br>
		<a href="http://www.michaelbach.de/ot" target="_blank">www.michaelbach.de/ot</a></p>
		<p>Optical Illusions on Wikipedia<br>

		<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion" target="_blank">
		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion</a></p>
		<p>Mighty Optical Illusions<br>
		<a href="http://www.moillusions.com" target="_blank">www.moillusions.com</a></p>
		<p>The "White Christmas" illusion sound file<br>

		<a href="http://www.mindhacks.com/book/48/whitechristmas.mp3" target="_blank">
		www.mindhacks.com/book/48/whitechristmas.mp3</a></p>
		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMan-Who-Mistook-His-Wife%2Fdp%2F0684853949%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210107949%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">
		The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat</a> (Oliver Sacks)</p>

		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007799/index.html">Mind Hacks</a>
		(Tom Stafford,
		Matt Webb)</p>
		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBlink-Power-Thinking-Without%2Fdp%2F0316010669%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210169410%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">Blink</a> (Malcolm
		Gladwell)</p>

		<h3>Chapter 5</h3>
		<p>"War of the Ghosts" story<br>
		<a href="http://penta.ufrgs.br/edu/telelab/2/war-of-t.htm" target="_blank">
		http://penta.ufrgs.br/edu/telelab/2/war-of-t.htm</a></p>

		<p>List of acronyms and acrostics <br>
		<a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_firstletter_mnemonics" target="_blank">
		http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_firstletter_mnemonics</a></p>
		<p>The Major System (mnemonic)<br>
		<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system" target="_blank">
		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system</a>.</p>

		<p>Clive Wearing documentary excerpts<br>
		<a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=clive+wearing" target="_blank">
		http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=clive+wearing</a></p>

		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMemoryS-Ghost-Nature-Memory-Strange%2Fdp%2F068482356X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210169539%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">
		Memory's Ghost</a> (Philip J. Hilts)</p>
		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FForever-Today-Story-Memory-Never-Ending%2Fdp%2F0552771694%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210169605%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">Forever
		Today</a> (Deborah Wearing)</p>
		<p>Book:

		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMind-Mnemonist-Little-about-Memory%2Fdp%2F0674576225%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210169692%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">The Mind of a Mnemonist</a> (Aleksandr
		R. Luria)</p>
		<h3>Chapter 6</h3>

		<p>The Amygdaloids (science rock band)<br>
		<a href="http://www.cns.nyu.edu/ledoux/amygdaloids" target="_blank">
		www.cns.nyu.edu/ledoux/amygdaloids</a></p>
		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FEmotional-Brain-Mysterious-Underpinnings-Life%2Fdp%2FB0013L4DVM%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210169954%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">The Emotional Brain</a>
		(Joseph Ledoux)</p>
		<h3>Chapter 7</h3>

		<p>List of cognitive biases<br>
		<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases" target="_blank">
		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases</a></p>

		<p>Morality dilemmas<br>
		<a href="http://www.yourmorals.org" target="_blank">www.yourmorals.org</a></p>
		<p>Situation puzzles<br>
		<a href="http://www.kith.org/logos/things/sitpuz" target="_blank">
		www.kith.org/logos/things/sitpuz</a></p>
		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMy-Lobotomy-Howard-Dully%2Fdp%2F0307381269%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210170158%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">My Lobotomy</a> (Howard Dully)</p>

		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDemon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Dark%2Fdp%2F0345409469%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210170249%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">The Demon-Haunted World</a>

		(Carl Sagan)</p>
		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FThinkertoys-Handbook-Creative-Thinking-Techniques-2nd%2Fdp%2F1580087736%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210170294%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">Thinkertoys</a>
		(Michael Michalko)</p>
		<p>Puzzle books by
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fexec%2Fobidos%2Fsearch-handle-url%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26search-type%3Dss%26index%3Dbooks%26field-author%3DPaul%2520Sloane&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">Paul
		Sloane</a></p>
		<p>Lateral thinking books by
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fexec%2Fobidos%2Fsearch-handle-url%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26search-type%3Dss%26index%3Dbooks%26field-author%3DEdward%2520De%2520Bono&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">Edward
		de Bono</a></p>
		<h3>Chapter 8</h3>

		<p>Online personality test<br>

		<a href="http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive" target="_blank">www.outofservice.com/bigfive</a></p>
		<h3>Chapter 9</h3>
		<p>Book about David Reimer:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAs-Nature-Made-Him-Raised%2Fdp%2F0061120561%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210170393%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">As
		Nature Made Him</a> (John Colapinto)</p>
		<h3>Chapter 10</h3>
		<p>Examples of nominative determinism<br>

		<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism</a></p>
		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNurture-Assumption-Children-Turn-They%2Fdp%2F0684857073%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210170464%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">The Nurture Assumption</a>
		(Judith Harris)</p>
		<p>Book:
		<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGreat-Brain-Debate-Nurture-Essentials%2Fdp%2F0691133107%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210170580%26sr%3D1-1&tag=oreillycom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">
		The Great Brain Debate</a> (John E. Dowling)</p>
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