Medical students need to remember a lot of different things. What are the symptoms of pulmonary edema? Are there drugs you shouldn’t prescribe with prednisone? How do you diagnose myocarditis? Anki ...

What if I told you that you would never have to cram for another test again? That you’d effortlessly remember pertinent information and, moreover, retain it for years after the end of the class? In ...

Spaced repetition is a simple study principle: I show you the front side of a flash card bearing, say, a word in Spanish. You then have to tell me what that word is, in English. If you got it right ...

Keeping up with our languages is tough. Ideally, we would live in an environment where we use them every day, have a language partner to practice with, or regularly listen to and read media from each ...

Make simple and clear flashcards for quick recall, and practice active recall by fetching answers from memory instead of ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...