"[1] Ogas's nonfiction book A Billion Wicked Thoughts (2011, with Sai Gaddam) analyzed the sexual terms used in web searches by approximately 100 million internet users.
[22][full citation needed][23][24] As advertising prose from the Hatchett Books Group describes it, the book: traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity—beginning after World War II—as a science-driven profession that saves lives ... [including] ... case studies and portraits of the professionals of the field—from Sigmund Freud to Eric Kandel ...[25] Shrinks received a starred review in Kirkus,[26] was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice,[27] and was longlisted for the PEN/E.O.Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
[28] Ogas won $500,000 on an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire that aired on November 8, 2006, using his cognitive science research to guide his game strategy.
[5][29] Ogas has intimated in interviews that he had a strong hunch about his final question (about the Boston Tea Party, shown), after tentatively eliminating three of the choices; he ultimately decided to walk away because of the large amount of money at risk ($475,000 of his $500,000).
Ogas then defeated former Twenty-One champion David Legler in the semifinals before losing to Ken Jennings in the final.