Answer by André Müller on Quora. I memorized over 23 writing systems so far, starting from those very similar to Latin, like Cyrillic or Greek, over quite distinct ones like Arabic or Devanagari or ...

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Good memory is a sign of optimum brain health. Some tend to have memory lapses as they age; others begin to forget details due to factors that are not age-related. But we can do a lot to ensure a good ...

Hey, kids: check out the online memorization tool at Memorize.com. Built on Ruby on Rails, with a CouchDB backend and some JQuery magic, Memorize.com doesn’t do a whole lot, but what it does do it ...

There’s no shortcut to memorizing Shakespeare, and that’s a good thing. The language can feel intimidating, the lines are often in verse, and the plays are long. If you don’t understand everything the ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...

Do you want to improve your short-term memory? Do you want to remember names, faces, important details — basically anything — more reliably and much more easily? (Or, if you’re like me, do you just ...

Kids these days … can't even be bothered to memorize the periodic table. It used to be what separated the kids from the adults. But young chemists today say, "what's the point?" And they've got a ...