Photo Review

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The moon is the worst. Month in and month out, every full moon generates untold thousands of disappointed snapshooters all over the world. It had looked so big and beautiful coming up over a beautiful landscape, or a city skyline or even a suburban b

Chicago Tribune

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You stride purposefully into the living room and then ... your mind goes blank. You can't remember what you planned to do. Or you memorize a short grocery list. But when you arrive at the supermarket all you can recall is yogurt. What else were you s

Pick Me Up

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Choose a different route to get to work each week or try a different mode of transport, like biking or using public transport instead of driving. Your brain will benefit and you might be surprised by how easy it is to change your thinking. Researcher

How It Works

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The very beginning involves the exposure to surrounding scenes and situations. Various sights and sounds are experienced by your senses. With the sensory information passed to the brain, the volume and complexity is too great to process. Our brain s

Futurity

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Intense emotions may explain why some people with dementia can remember things that happened a long time ago while forgetting things they did just hours in the past, a memory expert explains in this podcast. “Your mother’s retirement party 30 years a

Men's Health Australia

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I HAD ALMOST reached my exit when the traffic suddenly slowed. It was Remembrance Day, and I was annoyed because it meant I would probably be late to a BBQ. Then I heard the sound of skidding tyres. A motorcycle careened into view on my left, out of

Essentials South Africa

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Whether it’s to an exotic destination or a long weekend in our sunny South Africa, a holiday is a great way to relax. ‘They’re a break from the stresses of every day,’ says Miriam Akhtar, a psychologist and author of The Little Book of Happiness. ‘T

Pick Me Up

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1 Clench your fists: If you’re somebody who forgets someone’s name as soon as you learn it, try this. Clench your right fist while you’re trying to commit something to memory and then later clench your left fist when you want to remember it again. (I

Anorak Magazine

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That’s top of our list of learning. Why? Because it is FUN. Building sandcastles is an early way of learning how construction works. Playing cards teaches us about maths, competition, reading people’s feelings and sharing. Hooray for play! We often w

Digital Camera World

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AN ARTIST statement can be thought of as any text — written or spoken — by an artist that explains their work. This is sometimes very formal, as in a gallery or academic setting, but may also be very casual. It is based on an artist’s description of

Diabetes Self-Management

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Dear Readers, Summer is getting underway, which means longer days and more time spent outdoors. You’ll find that our recipes (page 40) have been handpicked with this time of year in mind. From our selection of plant-based burgers to dishes that will

Men's Health Australia

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A shot of espresso before an important meeting could help you absorb key facts. It’s a stimulant, which can improve certain types of memory. Think of this as the opposite of a food coma. Fasting may help release specific brain chemicals that protect

Girlfriend Australia

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With exams looming, it’s time to get studying. Eeeeek. NGL, it’s boring and hard and all round meh. But there are a few hacks that can make studying a bit more productive and a little easier. But remember that there is no perfect way to study and you

N-Photo: the Nikon magazine

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One of my clients told me about an experience they had with another photographer. They commissioned a shoot of their family, and were due to meet at a local woodland spot. It was the first time they’d done anything like this, and they were a bit nerv

The American Poetry Review

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Writing seems to be approaching the condition of speech, and perhaps it’s merely nostalgia for print culture, but it feels nefarious to me. If Marshall McLuhan was right, and the “medium is the message,” then the speed with which online communication

Mother & Baby India

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1 A journal is a great way to harness the new creative powers your changing brain has granted you. And, if you do find your memory clouding, you’ll be able to remind yourself about the stages of your pregnancy journey by flicking through its pages. J

Futurity

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The older a person is, the less likely they are to share memories of their past experiences, according to a new study. And when they do share memories, they don’t describe them in as much detail as younger people do. The findings in Frontiers in Huma

Fairlady

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It’s 1pm on a Wednesday – where are you right now? Sitting on a park bench, enjoying the sunshine? Or eating out of Tupperware at your desk again? According to a 2018 survey by job search website CareerJunction, only a third of South Africans take a

Independent on Saturday

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ONE late summer night decades ago, while on holiday in a bayside cottage in Southampton, New York, I carried our son Michael, then only three, into the dark silence out of doors. The sky shimmered with stars. Michael tilted his head back to look up,

Spoke

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You’ve ridden the trail a few times and remember it well as you pitch it to your friends: “There’s a climb at the beginning, but it’s only got one steep pinch, and once you get to the top it’s pretty much all downhill. There’s a rocky chute halfway d

Amateur Photographer

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When was the club founded? The club was founded in March 1960 when 16 amateur photographers met in an ex-servicemen's hut in the village of Shillington in Bedfordshire. The club moved to its present location in Barton-le-Clay in 2009. What does you

Visi

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Mário Macilau, who has exhibited at prestigious events and exhibitions across the globe, from the Venice Biennale to the Vitra Design Museum, views himself as a visual investigator of sorts, a documentarian who focuses on environmental and political

Futurity

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People over 50 who attend religious services and pray privately may notice better memory performance, researchers report. According to the study’s findings, frequent religious service attendance and private prayer were linked to stronger cognitive he

Woman's Own

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Reaching over to my buzzing phone, I saw it was a message from one of my oldest friends, Jenny, and grinned. ‘Drinks at mine?’ she’d asked, and for the first time in months, my answer was yes. Not only were my son, then 11, and daughter, two, with my

The Christian Science Monitor

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If the book Lars Tunbjörk had a soundtrack, it would be by the Talking Heads. Like the famed band’s songbook, the images in this book are loaded with longing and dread. The book is a posthumous retrospective of one of Sweden’s most prominent photogra

Digital Photographer

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Being a lone photographer isn’t easy at the best of times – and solo projects or business ideas are hard to make progress with alone. Photography has never been as accessible as it is now, so the market is saturated with budding professionals trying

Australian Men's Fitness

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It’s wise to take it slow at the start of whatever sport you decide to take up, but it’s especially important with running. That’s because running can be an absolute chore at first. Within a minute, you’re breathing hard, muscles start screaming at y

Mindful

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1 Pause for a moment and notice any experience of kindness, gratitude, or awe that you have experienced today or remember from the past. Maybe your neighbor drove you to and from work for three days while your car was in the shop, or you saw a blue h

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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Research in China has found that having a daily nap can improve cognitive function in people over 65. The study found that participants who slept for more than five minutes and less than two hours after lunch had enhanced spatial skills, working memo

Nautilus

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In the beginning, my mother is carrying me in her arms as she closes a screen door. I remember her humming as she walks along, and then she sits down on a bench that is surrounded by greenery. That’s all that is left of my earliest memory: screen doo