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My BBC Future column from a few days ago. The original is here. I’m donating the fee from this article to Wikipedia. Read the column and it should be obvious why. Perhaps you should too: dona... 
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Sara Mednick, a psychologist at UC San Diego, talks about how napping improves mind and memory...
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Odds are, you’re not going to make it all the way through this article without thinking about something else.
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You can trick your mind into remembering useful but dull facts by weaving the information into vivid mental shorthand...
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No one can remember everything, and the Web can be a great mind-expanding device.
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Cognitive training including puzzles, handicrafts and life skills are known to reduce the risk, and help slow down the progress, of dementia amongst the elderly. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine showed that cognitive training was able to improve reasoning, memory, language and hand eye co-ordination of healthy, older adults.
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For centuries, theater of the mind has been used to train people to improve their memories. Theater is a good metaphor to describe the different world of the brand that we enter into when we read a print ad, watch a television commercial or interact with a digital ad online.
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Our minds are made up just as much by the people and tools around us as they are by the brain cells inside our skull.