Somewhere out there is a goblet containing Galileo’s middle finger and a test tube holding Thomas Edison’s last breath. Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton tracked down both and much more for ...

Listeners respond to yesterday's conversation with Joshua Foer, the author of a book about the art and science of memory; and lovers of cassette tapes. Robert Siegel and Michele Norris read letters ...

Joshua Foer really knows how to flatter a reader’s intelligence, said Marie Arana in The Washington Post. In his “deeply engrossing” debut, the young science journalist and 2006 U.S. memory champion ...

Science journalist Joshua Foer used special "memory goggles" and earphones to become U.S. memory champion. He detailed his road to the competition in his book "Moonwalking with Einstein." ...

The founder of the Lehrhaus tavern and author of the Atlas Obscura books talks about weird wildlife, extraordinary places, and his Jewish identity on the “Say More” podcast. Joshua Foer is a lot of ...

Think of Atlas Obscura as a well-edited wiki to catalog, as the site puts it, “all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional ...

Hoping to challenge not only New Yorkers’ notions about sukkahs but also the world’s, Joshua Foer has launched Sukkah City for this coming Sukkot. From September 19-21, a dozen experimental sukkahs ...

Joshua Foer probably never forgets is that he is, as writers tend to describe him, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s younger brother. But big friggin’ deal, really — the elder Foer probably wishes he ...

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran film producer Ben Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer have founded independent production company Leviathan Productions which will focus on creating premium film and ...