As the silly phrase “kings play chess on funny green squares” (or whichever variant you may have learned in biology class for the biological classification of organisms) illustrates, mnemonics are ...

Exams are stressful. You can spend hours reading, highlighting, and rewriting your notes, yet when it comes time to recall ...

Mnemonics have long been used to help learners remember facts in various disciplines of medicine. With the introduction of the revised Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), it is vital for learners to ...

If you have trouble remembering names, faces or phone numbers, these tips from memory champions and neuroscientists can help. By Bryan Clark You slide the key into the door and hear a clunk as the ...

Two types of low-level language are: ...

1. The rhyme. For hundreds of years, schoolchildren started the study of American history with: "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue." 2. The verbal gimmick. Clearly, modern civilization would be ...

The longest word in any major English dictionary is 45 letters long! The word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisand it is the name of a medical ...

It’s fair to say that Richard—an ennobled great-grandson of King Edward III—dying at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460 probably isn’t the most well known of historical facts. But when you retell that ...