Penguin Random House made publishing news when it agreed to pay a reported $2 million for the rights to a series of novels by a new writer, Emma Cline. The first in that series, “The Girls,” based on the Manson family murders of the late 1960s, is out. Paula Gallagher reviews Cline’s debut novel.Is there such a thing as a “hot hand” in basketball? What’s going on when we see baseball players having a hot streak or a slump? Johns Hopkins’ researcher Jonathan Flombaum takes us to the intersection of sports, brain science and philosophy for a talk about LeBron James and the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers, the Baltimore Orioles, and what studies tell us about athletes who get “hot.” Flombaum is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Science at Johns Hopkins University, and he’s affiliated with the Visual Thinking Lab at Hopkins.
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