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Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.
If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once... →
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and... →
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common... →
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book... →
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15... →
The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book... →
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird... →
No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand... →
Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony... →
The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and... →
We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers... →
We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot... →
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