1. Joshua Foer was born on September 23,1982 and is a freelance journalist and author living in Brookline, Massachusetts, with a primary focus on science.
14 Facts About Joshua Foer
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Joshua Foer was the 2006 USA Memory Champion, which was described in his 2011 book, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.
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Joshua Foer spoke at the TED conference in February 2012.
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Joshua Foer was born in Washington, DC, and attended Georgetown Day School.
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In 2006, Joshua Foer won the USA Memory Championship, and set a new US record in the "speed cards" event by memorizing a deck of 52 cards in 1 minute and 40 seconds.
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Joshua Foer then studied under a British grandmaster of memory, Ed Cooke.
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Joshua Foer received a $1.2 million advance for the book.
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Joshua Foer's works have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, The Nation, and The New Yorker.
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Joshua Foer has an interest in wildlife journalism, and has written articles for National Geographic.
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Joshua Foer is currently working on a book about his travels and experiences with the Mbendjele pygmies of the Congo Basin.
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Joshua Foer has founded several organizations, several of them dedicated to preserving Jewish traditions.
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In 2013, Joshua Foer co-founded the website Sefaria with Google developer Brett Lockspeiser, in order to transcribe, translate and digitize the core texts of Judaism.
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Joshua Foer is a board member of the Jim Joseph Foundation for Jewish education.
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In 2013, Joshua Foer was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.