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Wired Magazine - Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

Citation added: April 22nd, 2008, 9:58 am
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it.
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Super Memory

Citation added: April 22nd, 2008, 9:54 am
This website contains information about fast learning, memory, self-improvement, time-management, and more. The site was built around a new learning technology developed in Poland in the years 1982-2000 and commercially known as SuperMemo.
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The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids, from Po Bronson, no date given, via New York Magazine

Citation added: April 2nd, 2008, 7:35 pm
3900 words reviewing the experimental psychological evidence against self-esteem and particularly praise for innate abilities; praise for being smart often translates into timidity and lack of persistence, citing Carol Dweck's work at Columbia with Lisa B
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Now for a Different Paradigm about Youth, from Wayne Jennings, 2007-05-31

Citation added: June 3rd, 2007, 1:20 am
200 words about Robert Epstein's "The Myth of the Teen Brain", which argues that adolescence is a product of teen-infantilizing society, based on research in other societies.
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education | psychology | sociology

"Beyond IQ: Youngsters Who Can Focus on the Task at Hand Do Better in Math", from Christie Nicholson, 2007-03-26, via Scientific American

Citation added: May 30th, 2007, 11:39 pm
630 words about how "executive functioning", the ability to concentrate (working memory and inhibitory control), helps in mathematical reasoning as early as preschool. Well, duh.
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psychology | intelligence | productivity | education

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