“Ig Nobel Prize: Vanilla flavoring from cow dung”
Darn, I missed the free public tasting yesterday.
Archive for 6th October 2007
Don’t Forget To…
The hardest thing about remembering something is remembering it long enough to remember it.
Okay, that sentence is a little convoluted, but that doesn’t affect it’s accuracy. 
The hardest part about remembering something is keeping it in your head for more than a few seconds in the first place — once you can do that, you can get better and faster at remembering it by constructing new memory paths to it from all the places you need them. The more you use something, the easier it is to remember it.
I’ve had several nights in the last few weeks where I just couldn’t get to sleep, or woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep immediately. To usefully pass the time, I’ve stayed in bed and practiced memory techniques. Continue reading ‘Don’t Forget To…’ »