Use ‘Dual Coding’ to Study Twice As Effectively
Photo: mangpor2004 (Shutterstock) When you learn and use a studying method, you’re making it easier for your brain to synthesize new information. Great! Now think of how much more you…
A Lifetime Subscription to Babbel Is $140 Right Now
Image: Babbel Learning a new language can be beneficial to your career or personal growth—and from now until Nov. 5, you can get a lifetime subscription to Babbel Language Learning…
How the ‘Primacy Effect’ Can Help You Remember Information
Photo: Gorodenkoff (Shutterstock) Your brain is complex, but once you figure out its little intricacies—like that it can only store about seven units of information in short-term memory—you can exploit…
Use the ‘Chunking’ Method to Actually Remember What You Studied
Studying is a necessary pain when one is in school, which is why we have devised so many ways to do it. Everyone learns differently, but some methods are more…
Why You Lost Wordle Today
I solved today’s Wordle in three guesses, which I thought was no biggie. It seemed like an easy word. But according to social media, today’s Wordle is devilishly hard. Friends,…
22 Things You Should’ve Learned in High School (and Where to Learn Them Now)
Photo: Lesterman (Shutterstock) High school is supposed to be the place where we get the fundamental skills we’re going to need in life. It’s also supposed to be the place…
Your Child’s Short Attention Span Is Actually Helping Them Learn
Photo: FamVeld (Shutterstock) A child’s short attention span can be something to behold. One moment, they are playing with their train, the next moment they’re spinning in circles, and now…
Science Thinks It Has Found the Best Wordle Starter
Photo: Gorodenkoff (Shutterstock) One thing that sets Wordle apart from other games is that you face a grid with no clues whatsoever at the start. You get to make the…
5 of the Most Difficult Video Games in Recent Memory
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‘Is This AI Sapient?’ Is the Wrong Question to Ask About LaMDA
The uproar caused by Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who believes that one of the company’s most sophisticated chat programs, LaMDA (or Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is sapient, has…