Howard Schneider
Posts by Howard Schneider (page 3)
How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick’s Robotic Resurrection
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the elites of Europe and the United States were thrilled by what they perceived as a rather sophisticated... Read More
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
I perforce begin with a confession: I couldn’t finish Salman Rushdie’s two most notable novels, Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses. I don’t love... Read More
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind
Dear reader, this is your lucky day! I can teach you how to steal a watch, cheat at cards, read minds, and astonish friends... Read More
The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers—How Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
Did you know that in the Roman Catholic Church, there is an official called a camerlengo whose sole duty since the Middle Ages has... Read More
Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground
“America,” Jonathan Kay writes in Among the Truthers, “has always been a land of cranks.” And his investigation of contemporary paranoid conspiracy theories and... Read More
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Readers of a certain age might remember the “phone phreaks” of the 1960s and ’70s who deviously manipulated telephone technology in order to make... Read More
Martin Gardner: The Polymath
Martin Gardner, who died on May 22 at the age of ninety-five, was described in his New York Times obituary as a polymath. That’s... Read More