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Good on you for getting out and showing your kids that it is ok to leave a bad relationship (even if they don't realize that is what you are doing at the time). My father married a…

This comment made the thread for me.

I saw that at Lollapalooza and it one of the best shows I have ever seen. I thought it was so cool afterwards to see a bunch of people covered head to toe in blue body paint like t…

> This article essentially amounts to a fire-and-brimstone sermon full of questionable statements, things that run directly contrary to established science, and poor argumentation …

> Here's the basis of that claim [1]. Based on a skim of the paper, this experiment seems to only plan out how individuals study material on the same day, not distributed over a pe…

For a good article on proper language learning, check out the guys from Antimoon. They go into detail on how to learn a language and many myths regarding the topic. https://www.ant…

There are a bunch of evolutionary reasons that your brain forgets things that aren't used. Check this article for some related to sleep: https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2…

I think rote learning is only not applicable when you are learning disparate facts with no relation to the whole. For example, learning all of the HTTP status codes before you know…

^^ This. Piotr Wozniak (the creator of Supermemo and the man behind spaced repetition software) has re-formatted a lot of his old posts and ideas into a wiki at supermemo.guru. Use…

If you don't know how to structure cards to be effective, I highly recommend you read through the 20 rules of knowledge formatting https://supermemo.guru/wiki/20_rules_of_knowledge…

So from what I understand, there is a tradeoff to whether or not you memorize something. When you have a piece of knowledge memorized, it has the capability to be activated in para…

I listen to New Retro Wave and outrunner almost exclusively. I have also found that video game soundtrack remixes can help to preserve focus as well.