Swindling $20 million out of popular romance novelist Jude Devereaux was one of the highlights of Rose Marks’ decade-long career as a con artist. Before she was caught, Marks fancied herself a psychic who held the answers to her client’s problems — no matter the nature — but at a steep cost, and often with mal-intent. Marks is just one of Telfer’s amusing, albeit sobering, accounts of female “Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters”. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
