I’ve always had a good memory but when I was 12 I came across the book “How to Develop a Superpower Memory” by Harry Lorayne. In this book he delves into the topic of mnemonics. Each chapter covers a different aspect such as lists, foreign languages, faces, cards, et cetera. Before reading the book I would always lose my glasses and constantly look at my watch because I’d forgotten what it said the last time. After reading it I couldn’t forget where my glasses where nor what time it was when I last looked at the watch. I also couldn’t forget where I had placed anything. His techniques helped me remember phone numbers and French, Russian and Spanish words. I was in a meeting once when the big boss looked at me and asked me why I wasn’t taking notes. I told him it’s because I remember everything about the meetings. That took him aback. Everyone else always took notes. I’m not saying that I literally remember everything. I don’t. I do remember most of the gist of everything. I read a lot and I pick up grammar, spelling and other linguistic aspects from that material. This allows me to spot typos and grammatical mistakes much easier than most people. You might have experienced some of my corrections. Mnemonics should be taught at a very early age. Without a basis for remembering things, how will anyone accumulate knowledge? Some years after I read his book a new book was published called “The Memory Book”. It has all of Harry’s techniques and then some. I found that book to be more difficult. Harry had an easy style of teaching. Harry used to appear on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson every now and then. Before the show he would remember the names of all of the audience members. During the show random people were selected and Harry would name them.

The purpose of language is to convey meaning and if you can't convey any sort of meaning with your words then I might just mute your account. The reason is quite simple; the tools are available and are included with your phone or tablet and have obviously been turned off. This

Like or respect the person who wrote it. Many of my favorite follows are in this category. I've had long discussions with Grok about automatic corrections so that I don't have to cringe so often. Such an automated system could filter out the gibberish as well.

So, when I point out the correct spelling or phrase, don't assume that my English is perfect. Ever since I read that book when I was 12, I can't help but notice these things. They jump out at me and cause me to stop reading. I'll continue reading and just brush it off if I...

Fred Kummerow told America in 1957 that the fat in margarine was turning up in the arteries of the dead. The government acted on it in 2015. He was 100. He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, and what he had done was simple and slightly grim. He got hold of tissue from people who had died of heart disease and looked at what their arteries were made of. They were full of trans fats, a kind of fat that barely exists in nature and came, in 1957, from one place: the hydrogenated vegetable shortening and margarine the country had just been told to eat in place of butter. He published it in Science. He was 43. What followed was a career spent being ignored by experts. The oil industry had friends on every committee. His funding grew thin. In 1968 he talked a panel of the American Heart Association into warning about trans fats, and the warning was pulped and reprinted without it after the shortening makers saw a draft. Kummerow kept working. He kept his laboratory into his nineties. And he kept eating, quite deliberately and in front of journalists, the diet he had been told would kill him. Eggs cooked in butter. Whole milk. Red meat. He had looked inside the arteries himself and he had not found breakfast in there. In 2009, aged 94, he filed a formal petition asking the Food and Drug Administration to ban artificial trans fats. The law gave the agency 180 days to answer. Four years later it had not, so in 2013, at 98, he sued the United States government. Three months after that the FDA announced it agreed with him. The ban was confirmed in 2015. The gap between his paper and the decision was 58 years, which is longer than most of the people who ate the margarine got. He died in 2017, at 102. And he spent those last years on a second warning, which has been received exactly as the first one was. The problem, he said, was never the cholesterol in the egg. It is the vegetable oil in the fryer, heated and reheated until it oxidises, and then eaten. On the record so far, that one is due to be acted upon in about 2070.

Slow Horses is back!

I don't speak German but I've got these periodicals from 1915 on eBay. ebay.io/m/yjW8fi

Alan Jackson wrote the song that America needed to hear, and the truth of these lyrics still rings loud 25 years later. Never Forget🙏 911 piped.video/watch?v=mwcWVs4E…

The hotel I was staying at when I bought this had a 4K TV. I no longer have access to a 4k TV so I'm selling it. I'm using an older Roku now. ebay.io/m/zbNfpq

A long time ago I used an iPod touch quite a bit. I recently discovered just how tiny and light the thing is. The battery is shot so I'm selling it on eBay for parts/not working.

We’re in orbit! And just made European history: This is the first time a privately developed rocket reached orbit from continental Europe; and a testament to the dedication, expertise, and teamwork of everyone involved.

We were never russians. Not in 1918. Not in 2022. Not ever. And never will be. #ukraine #ukrainians #russians #russia #ukrainerussiawar