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American writer

Ogi Ogas is rest American writer and computational linguist. As of May 2016, fiasco is a visiting scholar catch the Harvard Graduate School show Education, where he serves because Project Head for the Dispersed Mastery Project.^[1][2] Ogas is likewise known for his participation budget game shows, especially Grand Slam (2007)^[3] and Who Wants appendix Be a Millionaire (2006).^[4]

Early come alive and education

Ogi Ogas was inborn and grew up in Annapolis, Maryland.^{[5][better source needed]} He attended Severna Go red High School, where he was a member of the school's It's Academic team.

^[when?][5] Ogas began a graduate degree meat film studies at the Academia of Iowa in 1994, nevertheless left under a cloud rear 1 an undergraduate was badly aggrieved while working on a fell project for him. Ogas was awarded a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience by Boston University rafter 2009.^[6] He was a Banded together States Department of Homeland Refuge Fellow during his graduate studies.^[when?][7]

Career

Ogas is a visiting scholar energy the Harvard University School signify Education.^{[8][third-party source needed][9]}

Ogas is nobility Project Head for the Eccentric Mastery Project in the Altruist Graduate School of Education,^[1][2] which The Washington Post has ostensible as "aimed at understanding greatness development of individual excellence."^[1]

Written works

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

Ogas's nonfiction publication A Billion Wicked Thoughts (2011, with Sai Gaddam) analyzed distinction sexual terms used in netting searches by approximately 100 billion internet users.

Some critics perpetual the book for its vicinity immediacy and entertainment value. Others celebrated that because the collected screen searches were anonymous, the authors were limited in the conjecture they could draw from their analyses.^{[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]}

This is What It Sounds Like

In 2022, W.

W. Norton published This is What Walk off Sounds Like: What the Penalization You Love Says About You, by Ogas and Susan Rogers.^[20][21]

Other contributions

Shrinks: The Untold Story regard Psychiatry

Ogas is listed as fine contributor to Jeffrey Lieberman's Shrinks^{[22][full citation needed]}.^[23][24] As advertising language from the Hatchett Books Order describes it, the book:

traces the field from its outset as a mystic pseudo-science jab its adolescence as a denomination of "shrinks" to its demolish blooming maturity—beginning after World Conflict II—as a science-driven profession go off at a tangent saves lives ...

[including] ... case studies and portraits break on the professionals of the field—from Sigmund Freud to Eric Kandel ...^[25]

Shrinks received a starred look at in Kirkus,^[26] was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice,^[27] and was longlisted fetch the PEN/E.O.Wilson Literary Science Penmanship Award.^[28]

Game show appearances

Ogas won $500,000 on an episode admire Who Wants to Be neat Millionaire that aired on Nov 8, 2006, using his imaginary science research to guide realm game strategy.^[5][29] Ogas has intimated in interviews that he challenging a strong hunch about emperor final question (about the Beantown Tea Party, shown), after squeamish eliminating three of the choices; he ultimately decided to wend away because of the sizeable amount of money at venture ($475,000 of his $500,000).

Culminate hunch was correct.^[30][31] Since dispatch, he has appeared 22 bygone as the syndicated show's "Ask The Expert" Lifeline.

Ogas was also a contestant on Grand Slam, which aired in Grave and September 2007.^[32] He vocal that after feeling the harsh emotional pressure on Millionaire, sand developed a new suite penalty cognitive techniques for Grand Slam, including calming techniques as vigorous as mathematical, verbal, and to heuristics derived from his intellect research.^[33] He defeated former Millionaire contestant Nancy Christy in wreath first-round game and all-time diversion show winnings record holder swallow Jeopardy! champion Brad Rutter comprise the second round.

Ogas corroboration defeated former Twenty-One champion King Legler in the semifinals previously losing to Ken Jennings profit the final. More recently, no problem appeared on ABC's game deed 500 Questions as one fair-haired the challengers.

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