"Based entirely on original interviews with Nobel laureates, MacArthur geniuses, National Science Medal winners, and other leading scientists, Braintrust delivers more than 100 proven, scientifically valid tips guaranteed to make you more awesome"--Provided by publisher.

Transform a relationship with language / Steven Pinker -- Eat for eight hours, lose weight / Satchidananda Panda -- How to build tiny, flying cyborg beetles / Michel Maharbiz -- How to learn / Robert Bjork -- The body language of dominance and love / David Givens -- How and when to overrule choice / Sheena Iyengar -- The coolest card trick ever / Ian Stewart -- How to bet sports / Wayne Winston -- Avoid consumption quicksand / Niro Sivanathan -- How to hang ten / Paul Doherty -- How to sell for big bucks on eBay / Gillian Ku -- Should you multitask? / David Strayer -- Teach you toddler perfect pitch / Diana Deutsch -- How to agree (and why negotiations fail) / George Loewenstein -- Win the lottery / Skip Garibaldi -- Imagine eating to eat less / Casey Morewedge -- Use rubber bands to be a radical rock climber / Hugh Herr -- Decoupling "comfort" and "food" / Mark Wilson -- Wring an extra $20 out of a used car / Devin Pope -- Happiness, why lawyers don't volunteer, and how to fund a nonprofit / Sanford DeVoe -- The science of speed dating / Paul Eastwick and Eli Finkel -- How to be a baller / John Fontanella -- How to panhandle / Lee Alan Dugatkin -- How to take a corner / Charles Edmondson -- Destroy stuff with awesome supervillain powers / Steve Strogatz -- Create a cultlike posse of worshipful automatons / Eli Berman -- Build a cybernetic third arm / Yoky Matsuoka -- Be a Scrabble jedi / Jason Katz-Brown -- Get your spouse to do more housework / George Akerlof -- Make the most of the genes you got / Joseph Ecker -- Throw a punch / Jearl Walker -- Make people laugh / Robert Provine -- See unholy colors / Jay Neitz -- Drink more to eat less / Brenda Davy -- How to avoid car theft / Ben Vollaard -- To know others, know thyself / Julian Keenan -- How to spot a liar / Paul Ekman -- Grow huge carnivorous plants / Gordon Dahl -- How to change your evil ways / B.J. Fogg -- Stop your body from dissolving itself / Gerald Weissmann -- Scam-proof yourself / Stephen Greenspan -- Avoid buying stuff you don't need / Brian Knutson -- Control gossip / Tim Hallett -- Do the utility shuffle to divide cake, chores, carbon, and the bill / Eric Maskin -- Might as well face it : addicted to love / Larry Young -- Create false memories to get more peach schnapps / Elizabeth Loftus -- Save the world in your spare time / Luis von Ahn -- Use Facebook to pick your party posse / Robin Dunbar -- How to get away with a crime in broad daylight / Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris -- The shortest path between errands / William Cook -- How to survive Armageddon / Mira Olson -- Be a trendsetter / Simon Levin -- Train the brain of the ultimate investor / Antoine Bechara -- Your future self knows best / Katherine Milkman -- Bigger, stronger, faster (without exercising) / Ronald Evans -- Sexy of voice, sexy of body / Gordon Gallup -- Spotting sincerity : a slow "yes" means "no" / Colin Camerer -- You suck, so I rock / David Dunning -- Proof yourself against sensationalized stats / Keith Devlin -- Avoid the carplike stare of choice paralysis / Jonah Berger -- The power of a connected minority / Michael Kearns -- Create a kick-ass tribe, any tribe / David Logan -- Government, God, or self : where do you get control? / Aaron Kay - How to stop a penalty kick / Gabriel Diaz -- World-record paper airplane / Ken Blackburn -- Succeed, you slacker! / Dolores Albarracin -- The science of smooth operating / Eastwick and Finkel -- Wash away your sins / Norbert Schwarz -- Get more pleasure for less price / Paul Bloom.