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- njunderground, on 10/30/2009, -1/+27Coffee is good again? Best news I've heard all day.
- badqat, on 10/30/2009, -0/+24Indeed! All we need now is to hear the same about bacon and risky sex, and we're all set!
- diggopolous, on 10/30/2009, -0/+18let's not get panicky now,
- diggB, on 10/30/2009, -0/+18Sadly, I'll probably forget most of these four hints by the end of the day.
- endigger2, on 10/30/2009, -6/+20Step 6: stop drinking and smoking pot.
- lenhartley, on 10/30/2009, -1/+12How about: do activities that require using your brain, rather than being a passive spectator.
Crosswords, interaction with other people (as they mentioned), sudoko, memory related board games, etc.
instead of TV, listening to music or otherwise being entertained by others. - pktgumby, on 10/30/2009, -0/+10Careful there buddy, hot greasy bacon might burn your....oh, were those two separate things?
- oda1, on 10/30/2009, -0/+8I was gonna read the article, but then I got high.
(hah you thought I was gonna say I forgot) - meloon, on 10/30/2009, -1/+9I think memory is either something you have or something you don't have... Some people have photographic memory, and they remember pretty much everything they read. That's amazing. I wish I could be like that, it would be easier to study for an exam.
- tusharpant, on 10/30/2009, -0/+8How about doing a little jog in the early morning
- Truedirt, on 10/30/2009, -0/+7Spending most of your day diigiging all these stories and keeping up with the crowd.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5As with most other things, the quality of your memory is affected both by genetics ("either something you have or something you don't have") and by environmental factors (getting dropped on your head as a kid = detrimental; keeping your brain active = beneficial.) So, two people with different genotypes will definitely have different tendencies toward senility, but you personally would lose your memory at different rates depending on your environmental factors.
Also: perfect recall (technical term: hypermnesia) would suck like an industrial-strength vacuum cleaner. You don't just get to remember the cool stuff, or the textbook chapter you're being quizzed on. You'd also vividly recall every ache, pain, loss, and humiliation you ever experienced. Not to mention every retarded conversation you've ever had: read Jorge Luis Borges "Funes the Memorious" some time (it's not very long, but like all of Borges' stories it's very dense reading) - I guarantee you'll never think that total recall is "awesome."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious
Alexander Luria did some case studies on the subject - I haven't read the originals, but the references I've run into sure as hell don't sound like fun. - TheKriket, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5I've also heard that eating Cauliflower can help give your memory a boost.
- shadowspawn, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5I came in here to post something witty, but forgot what it was.
- goodthinkin, on 10/30/2009, -0/+4Wait. What were they again?
- WhiskeyLemur, on 10/30/2009, -0/+4From what I've just read, doing sudoku over and over doesn't help your memory - but learning *new* games helps to stimulate the brain. I would think that crosswords would be different, since sudoku tends to fall back on several tactical tricks regardless of the difficulty, while crosswords tend to have much more variation.
And you're wrong about music being passive, btw - some classical composers (particularly Bach, if I recall correctly) stimulate neural activity, and a connoisseur (which I'm not) is actively neurally engaged in the piece when listening to it. - hackster, on 10/30/2009, -0/+3Memory can be improved by working it out. Just like you physically work out any muscle in your body. Try memorizing 10 random at the start of the day and try remembering those words when you go to bed. It's a great way to exercise your memory. Also, meditation can help in improving your concentration, which in turn helps improve your memory.
- sumdumguy1212, on 10/30/2009, -0/+3How do I improve my memory? I write ***** down!
- inactive, on 10/30/2009, -2/+5wow these tips really sucked.
- DiggMeUpPlz, on 10/30/2009, -0/+2Makin' Bacon...???
- MtEverestnepal, on 10/30/2009, -2/+4Really it improve our memory?
- mparker21311, on 10/30/2009, -0/+2And alcohol...
- Metadrew, on 10/31/2009, -0/+1Just act like you remember meditating for the last 8 weeks or something.
- Metadrew, on 10/31/2009, -0/+1Liar!
- JoeNaguib, on 10/30/2009, -1/+2"Brain scans of people who practiced meditating 12 minutes a day for eight weeks "
The article is improving my memory "in no time".
I don't have 12 minutes a day for the next eight weeks.
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