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How You Can Be a Memory Champion
- asto 14y agoCan a moderator edit the link and change it to the ted one? http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do.html http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_... Also, what is the karma threshold to edit other people's posts?
- SkyMarshal 14y agoYes, post is blogspam. Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zantzinger 14y agoEd Cooke - the memory champion Joshua Foer writes and talks about (in part) - has co-founded a site with cognitive scientist Greg Detre for memorising vocabulary (or indeed any "word set" users create). The principle is the same as that which forms the basis of Foer's talk - transforming the information you want to remember into something vivid or extreme in any sensorial aspect, and then revisiting that memory to firm it up. It certainly works for me: http://www.memrise.com http://www.memrise.com