Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
"Take the notion that children have specific learning styles, that some are “visual learners” and others are auditory; some are “left-brain” students, others “right-brain.” In a recent review of the relevant research, published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a team of psychologists found almost zero support for such ideas.
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Instead of sticking to one study location, simply alternating the room where a person studies improves retention. So does studying distinct but related skills or concepts in one sitting, rather than focusing intensely on a single thing."

  Research finds repressed memories don't exist
"The memory usually works in the opposite way, with traumatised people reliving experiences they would rather forget. On the other hand, false memories of past events can easily be created by inept therapists."

  GET YOUR TOWELS READY, IT'S ABOUT TO GO DOWN
船の上のポニョ!

  Did Bill Gates waste a billion dollars because he failed to understand the formula for the standard deviation of the mean?
"If for random reasons a few geniuses happen to enroll one year in a small school scores jump up and if a few extra dullards enroll the next year scores fall. Thus, for purely random reasons we would expect small schools to be among the best performing schools in any givenyear. Of course we would also expect small schools to be among the worst performing schools in any given year!"

  How bathroom posture affects your health
"We were not meant to sit on toilets, we were meant to squat in the field. When it comes to hemorrhoids — a painful swelling of the veins in the anal canal that affects half of all Americans — new research suggests that you may want to get your butt off the toilet."

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Das ist vielleicht ein großer Hund! ("That's quite a large dog!")

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