This is an opinion editorial by Thorbjørn König, a principal product designer with a sole focus on creating great user experiences for bitcoin products and services. One of the more curious features ...

A mnemonic device is a shortcut memory aid to storing facts fast and accurately. Mnemonic (the m is silent) is eponymously derived from Mnemosyne, the shadowy daughter of Uranus and Gaea, a wife of ...

In prior lessons, we learned some of the key principles of memorization: Lesson 1: encoding, consolidation, retrieval, re-consolidation Lesson 2: getting motivated Lesson 3: paying attention Lesson 8: ...

A team of researchers from the Netherlands, Austria and Germany has found that a well-known mnemonic device used to improve short-term memory also improves longer-term memory. In their paper published ...

Some lovers try positions that they can't handle—I'm referring to the bones of the wrist, of course. The phrase is a classic mnemonic used to remember the eight carpal (wrist) bones—scaphoid, lunate, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A friend wrote that she had a great way of remembering a complicated topic. “I created a pneumonic device,” she said. And an ...