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A World Series to Remember?
It’s a moment burned into the minds of Red Sox and Yankee fans alike – sitting inches away from the television, fists clenched, tightness in the chest and the unbearable urge to look away… It
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It pays to forget, new study claims
Toronto Sun: Just forget it. New research published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science claims that if you forget pointless facts you have a better memory for important things. Benjamin Storm, an assistant
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Want to improve your memory? Oh, forget it
msnbc: The better you can forget, the better you’ll be able to remember, scientists now say. To remember facts that are important in your life today, you have to be able to let go of
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Can’t remember the names of Beckham’s children? Then lucky you for avoiding the acquisition of trivia
The Daily Telegraph: The capital of New Zealand, the date of the Battle of Waterloo, the boiling point of water, the six wives of Henry VIII, the longest river in Africa, the names of David
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Why Forgetting Is Good For Your Memory
Huffington Post: Forgetting could help you remember. Huh? That’s the conclusion of new research from the University of Illinois at Chicago. We wouldn’t be able to learn new information if we didn’t forget some things, researchers
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Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: The Importance of Perspective-Taking
Scientific American: I often find myself walking into the kitchen (or the living room or bedroom or wherever), unable to recall why I was going there in the first place. What I do in those
