what the dog saw

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Nature

"What the Dog Saw" is a book by Malcolm Gladwell, which is a collection of 19 essays originally published in The New Yorker. The book is divided into three parts: "Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius", "Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses", and "Personality, Character, and Intelligence". The essays cover a wide range of topics, from the story of Cesar Millan, the so-called dog whisperer, to the problems of prediction and intelligence failure. The book was met with mainly positive reviews.