Yesterday I found a copy of The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone at Half Price Books and spent the evening enthralled. The beginning chapters cover the

Yesterday I found a copy of The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone at Half Price Books and spent the evening enthralled. The beginning chapters cover the same ground in this article but she then goes on to relate these ideas with the modern media landscape. Highly recommended book and she cohosts a podcast generally about the same subject called 'On the Media' (also highly recommended by me).