Good memory is a sign of optimum brain health. Some tend to have memory lapses as they age; others begin to forget details due to factors that are not age-related. But we can do a lot to ensure a good ...

Hey, kids: check out the online memorization tool at Memorize.com. Built on Ruby on Rails, with a CouchDB backend and some JQuery magic, Memorize.com doesn’t do a whole lot, but what it does do it ...

Typical study methods like lectures, cramming, and re-reading are ineffective. According to scientific research, they don’t help students retain information over the long term. What works is spaced ...

To judge by the reactions of some citizens, you’d think that Britain’s education secretary had proposed the reinstatement of Latin noun declensions and other pedagogical tortures. He recently ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At all stages of life, we are called upon to memorize something. Whether it is a historical ...

A few years ago, I was directing someone who was completely new to acting. This man, we’ll call him Al, was having a terrible time memorizing his lines. There were times during the first performances ...

Kids these days … can't even be bothered to memorize the periodic table. It used to be what separated the kids from the adults. But young chemists today say, "what's the point?" And they've got a ...