Did you know that when it comes to learning, forgetting is good, but reviewing is bad? In his new book How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens New York Times science reporter Benedict Carey offers many such revelations, using the research on learning to challenge our assumptions about how…
You Will Probably Fail At This New Year’s Resolution
If you’re like 44% of Americans, you’ve probably made a New Year’s resolution for 2015. Chances are, you want to lose weight, the most popular resolution of them all. You’re an eminently sensible person, so you’ve decided to lose weight gradually, because you’ve heard the experts say this is the best way to keep the…
What’s The Deal With Seinfeld And Autism?
Jerry Seinfeld has created quite a stir, and not for the latest episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” First, in an interview on NBC Nightly News, he told Brian Williams that he thinks he is “on the spectrum”. When asked about this comment in an Access Hollywood Interview about a week later, Seinfeld backtracked,…
‘The Marshmallow Test’ Teaches You Real-Life Self Control. Maybe.
A 5-year-old is seated at a table in an empty room. Before her are two plates: one with a single marshmallow, and another with two, and next to the treats is a bell. An adult tells her that she has two choices: She can wait until the adult returns, and get two marshmallows, or she…