Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A friend wrote that she had a great way of remembering a complicated topic. “I created a pneumonic device ...

AUSTIN, Texas — With strokes being the fifth-leading cause of death in the United States, one Austinite is hoping to spread the word of common symptoms. Nurse and cardiovascular disease and stroke ...

What do you get when you put together memory methods, flannel-clad dad music, and your subway reading? An iteration of This, That Or The Other! In this game, contestants must identify if a phrase is a ...

British journalist Christopher Stevens talks about his new book, Thirty Days Has September: Cool Way to Remember Stuff. Stevens says the book is aimed primarily at children and was based on his ...

Writing as a system of signs : Ways of communicating ideas ; Definition of writing ; Sources of information ; Study of writing -- Forerunners of writing : Primitive drawings ; ...

Although mnemonic devices far predate the written word, both Cicero and Quintilian name Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BCE) as the first teacher of an art of memory. Simonides composed the epitaph for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC recommends that nurses improve their evaluation of penicillin allergies. A mnemonic device helped ...

In what started as a spoof of his own schooling, a fourth year University of Chicago med student's biology-related songs are now helping his fellow students learn their coursework. John Paro, who has ...

Four male 9th-grade students with mild to moderate disabilities participated in a single case design that compared choral responding (CR) and a choral responding plus mnemonic device (CR+) during ...

If you are paying attention enough to know that we've got 11 planets now, instead of 9, then you know that the traditional mnemonic for memorizing the order of the planets has become obsolete. The old ...