Posts Tagged ‘Memory’

Being forgetful might make you smarter, study says

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
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You know those people who always boast about having a perfect memory? Maybe they shouldn’t, because having total recall is totally overrated. That’s according to a new paper in the journal Neuron, which concludes that forgetting things is not just normal, it actually makes us smarter. In the new report, researchers Paul Frankland and Blake Read more

How clever people can be foolish

Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

Which is correct?: A. People drown by breathing in water. B. People drown by holding their breath under water. Confronted with such a question, the vast majority of people would know that A was the correct answer. Indeed, most people would know that water in the lungs is proof of death by drowning but that lack of it is Read more

Work Smart: 5 Rules for Remembering Names

Friday, August 5th, 2011