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Topic: The mind

Fact Studying for an exam in the room you will sit it in helps Divers who learned word lists underwater recalled them better underwater. 1 min read Fact Some people taste words and see sounds in colour For a small share of the population, Tuesday is green, and it always has been. 1 min read Fact The tip of the tongue is knowledge without access You know the first letter, the rhythm, the number of syllables. You cannot reach the word. 1 min read Fact Anticipating a loss hurts more than the equivalent gain pleases Which is why you defend what you have harder than you chase what you want. 1 min read Fact Chess has more possible games than the universe has atoms Not more positions. More games. And it is not close. 1 min read Fact Shuffle a deck properly and you have almost certainly made history That exact order has, in all likelihood, never existed before in the history of the world. 1 min read Fact Sleep is when memory gets filed The night after learning does more work than the hour of learning. 1 min read Fact The Dunning-Kruger effect is not quite what you think The most-shared psychology finding on the internet may be partly a statistical mirage. 1 min read Fact Splitting the brain can produce two centres of will One hand buttoned the shirt. The other unbuttoned it. 1 min read Fact Remembering something changes it The memory you trust most is the one you have edited most often. 1 min read