IMAGINE YOU'RE IN SCHOOL AND YOU'RE TAKING AN EXAM. You studied, but you're still not sure about all the material being covered...
• Who is the author of The Secret Garden? Maybe P.L. Travers? (Try again.)*
• The third layer of Earth's atmosphere is the sphere. Darn, I knew that yesterday!**
Often, a quiz or test at school requires you to remember all kinds of facts and figures. So, how can you avoid forgetting a fact when you need one? Or retrieving a fact if one gets away from you—preferably before the test is over?!
Well, here's one answer you'll hopefully never forget: Recall methods can help you remember better. Here are three such techniques. So, stop scratching your head and give 'em a try.
Method #1: Enter the Mansion of Memories
The ancient Greeks and ancient Aboriginal people in Austrlalia (and probably other groups as well) independently discovered this method. Here's how it works. While studying, you simply walk through rooms you know well. As you move, you connect each fact you need to remember with something you see in those rooms. Say you're studying U.S. Presidents. As you walk, you imagine seeing Lincoln at your kitchen table, writing his Gettysburg Address. Then you see Franklin Roosevelt in your living room, giving one of his famous “Fireside Chats." And President John F. Kennedy stands at the front door, starting the Peace Corps. To remember all this later, you simply "walk" through the same rooms, in your mind's eye. And the facts will all return to you, as if you're a history magnet!
Method #2: Rhyme Is the Reason, or Stand for Something
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Who's Your Cousin?
The great apes are among the most popular animals in most zoos. Their actions, facial expressions, and family life remind us so much of ourselves. Have you ever wondered, though, how we might look to them?
Is it possible to die of boredom?
To figure out if we can die of boredom, we first have to understand what boredom is. For help, we called James Danckert, a psychologist who studies boredom at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
THE PROBLEM WITH PALM OIL
Palm oil is all around you. It’s in sugary snacks like cookies and candy bars. It’s in lipstick and shampoo and pet food.
SERGE WICH
Serge Wich’s favorite days at work are spent out in the forest, studying orangutans in Sumatra and Borneo or chimpanzees in Tanzania.
ELODIE FREYMANN
When you’re feeling sick, it probably doesn’t occur to you to try eating tree bark.
Guardians of the Forest
EARLY, MAKESHIFT WILDLIFE DRONES HELPED TO DETECT AND PROTECT ORANGUTANS.
APE ANTICS
The Whirling World of primate play
Dr. Ape Will See You Now
HUMANS AREN’T THE ONLY PRIMATES THAT USE MEDICATION.
THE LEFT OVERS
A lot has happened for modern humans to get to this point. We lost most of our hair, learned how to make tools, established civilizations, sent a person to the Moon, and invented artificial intelligence. Whew! With all of these changes, our bodies have changed, too. It’s only taken us about six million years.
SO, WHAT IS A PRIMATE?
What do you have in common with the aye-aye, sifaka, siamang, and potto? If you said your collarbone, you re probably a primatologist—a person who studies primates. If you’re not, read on.