I Hear Of Sherlock Everywhere

"it is a likely ruse" [ENGR]     February is a shorter month, so the latest episode of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere comes to you a day earlier.   We're joined by Maria Konnikova, whom you may remember as the author of . She first appeared on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere  to discuss that very book. Maria is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, where she writes a regular column with a focus on psychology and culture, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Scientific American MIND, and Smithsonian, among numerous other publications.   Maria's latest book is . While cheats and swindlers may be a dime a dozen, true con men are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. How do they do it? Why are they successful? And what keeps us falling for it? The Confidence Game not only asks why we believe con artists; it also examines the very act of believing and how our sense of truth can be manipulated by those around us, leaving us to fall for it - over