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Parallels with the Paranormal: speed-reading & psychics

Posted on March 8, 2021 by admin

I was amazed to hear an insightful discussion of my book SCAN ARTIST: HOW EVELYN WOOD CONVINCED THE WORLD THAT SPEED-READING WORKED on a podcast largely devoted to game design! My thanks to game designers and authors Kenneth Hite and … Continue reading →

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Agreeing to disagree: German Speed-Reading Society Welcomes Me!

Posted on February 3, 2021 by admin

I was honored to be a featured speaker at a recent Zoom meeting of the German Society for Speed-Reading. The group’s chair, Peter Rösler, knows my book, Scan Artist, and was well aware that I don’t believe that speed-reading is … Continue reading →

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I, the author, look back at my role in systemic racism.

Posted on November 6, 2020 by admin

Many thanks to the CTMirror, an online publication that ran my recent opinion piece, “That Little Girl Was a Future State Senator, and I Ignored Her.” An update: Connecticut State Senator Marilyn Moore, the subject of my piece, has won … Continue reading →

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No Justice for Capatoria Epps: My op-ed piece about the historical failure of the criminal justice system

Posted on June 29, 2020 by admin

About a year ago I became aware of the brutal 1952 murder of Capatoria Epps, a young Black New Yorker, and the racism that shielded her white killer from punishment commensurate with the crime. I thank the New York Daily … Continue reading →

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Tune in to my Facebook Live author talk

Posted on April 15, 2020 by admin

I’ll be doing a virtual author talk for the Westport Museum for History & Culture on Friday, April 17, 2020. Please tune in from 5-5:30 Eastern Time, or check out the recorded video at https://www.facebook.com/WestportHistory/videos/224237708891687/ Evelyn had a special connection … Continue reading →

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Proud to be singled out for failure (Failure Magazine, that is!)

Posted on February 16, 2020 by admin

My book Scan Artist is featured in the latest edition of Failure Magazine, an online publication dedicated to exploring “humankind’s boldest missteps.” Evelyn Wood’s fraudulent speed-reading method certainly falls into this category, Be sure to check out my Q&A with … Continue reading →

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Kindle’s Down-to-Earth Estimates of Reading Speed

Posted on January 13, 2020 by admin

Speed-reading scams still pop up regularly on the internet, and graduates of Evelyn Wood courses often protest, in print or in person, when I call her method a fraud. Still, almost no one believes in speed-reading anymore. Proof of this … Continue reading →

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In newest speed-reading scam, popular in China, no need to look at the pages

Posted on December 16, 2019 by admin

Even at her most preposterous, Evelyn Wood never claimed that her students could read books without even glancing at the pages. Her finger-pacing system required students to trace lines down text, as fast as they could turn the pages. But … Continue reading →

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Wall Street Journal Reviews “Scan Artist”

Posted on October 12, 2019 by admin

One of the first major news outlets to raise questions about Evelyn Wood’s speed-reading method ran a review of my book Scan Artist on its Opinion page today. It’s good to see the WSJ again describing Wood’s claims as “preposterous.” … Continue reading →

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When Congress Thought It Could Speed-Read

Posted on July 31, 2019 by admin

By Marcia Biederman, author of SCAN ARTIST: HOW EVELYN WOOD CONVINCED THE WORLD THAT SPEED-READING WORKED, to be released by Chicago Review Press on Sept. 3, 2019. If the redacted version of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s report had been released during the Kennedy era, everyone … Continue reading →

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