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Remembering More of Everything: The Memory Palace

“When information goes ‘in one ear and out the other,’ it’s often because it doesn’t have anything to stick to.” — Joshua Foer *** That’s a quote from the book Moonwalking with …

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A Few Useful Mental Tools from Richard Feynman

We’ve covered the brilliant physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988) many times here before. He was a genius. A true genius. But there have been many geniuses — physics has been fortunate to …

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