Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer.
New York: Penguin Press, 2011.
320 pp. $26.95 (hardcover).
The U.S. Memory Championship is an annual event at which contestants compete to memorize a list of 300 random words, 1,000 random digits, and a shuffled deck (or two) of playing cards. In 2005, Joshua Foer w…
