Memory

  • Asunción, Paraguay A pile of motorcycles that were seized by police for allegedly being stolen Photograph: Jorge Sáenz/AP Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic A keeper lets out a white rhino to an outside enclosure at a safari park Photograph: Martin Divíšek/EPA Phnom Penh, Cambodia Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, prays in front of a statue during…

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  • Recent research has shown that the ‘smart-phonification’ of our lives has led to an over reliance on our phones, which may be linked to memory retention problems. Director of Therapy Institute, columnist with The Irish Examiner, and author of Parenting the Screenager Richard Hogan joined Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra on Drivetime on RTÉ Radio 1 to discuss this ‘digital…

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  • There are plenty of good reasons to be physically active. Big ones include reducing the odds of developing heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Maybe you want to lose weight, lower your blood pressure, prevent depression, or just look better. Here’s another one, which especially applies to those of us (including me) experiencing the brain fog…

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  •   Learning could be harder as one grows older but Gabriel Wyner, an opera singer and author of Fluent Forever, says the best way to learn and retain anything in our memories is to challenge ourselves at remembering it instead of reading and re-reading, for example, a list of vocabulary words. You should read just…

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