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May 29th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
More stories on which I am behind the crowd:
- Monkey’s with robotic arms. What more is there to know?
- Age is Wisdom. Really. Well, maybe really. The conditions: “If older people are taking in more information from a situation,” as the article suggests, “and they’re then able to combine it with their comparatively greater store of general knowledge,” which the article doesn’t suggest, “they’re going to have a nice advantage.”
- We have two parallel but separate kinds of memory: “verbatim” and “gist.” This can explain how people so often believe things happened differently than they actually did. (via Marco)