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Museum of Wonder

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Cold as Hell

Elton John Mars- ‘’cold as a hell’’ NASA's Curiosity rover William Whewell The War of the Worlds 1897

Feb 11, 2021•26 min

Acre of Grass

Praising Yeats, T. S. Eliot wrote that “a man who is capable of experience finds himself in a very different world in every decade of his life; as he sees it with different eyes, the material of his art is continually renewed.” As a young symbolist Yeats had asked: When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like sparks blown out of a smithy, and die? Surely thine hour has come, thy great wind blows, Far-off, most secret, and inviolable Rose?

Feb 11, 2021•22 min

Memory Palace

A Memory Palace is an imaginary location in your mind where you can store mnemonic images. It has been used since ancient Rome, and is responsible for some quite incredible memory feats. Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effectiveness of the Memory Palace technique. It's all based on the scientific fact that your brain and spatial memory perceive space as a kind of image. The method of loci is also known as the memory journey, memory palace , or mind palace technique. This method i...

Apr 27, 2020•27 min
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