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“A tablet a day, and I was limitless.”

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

  If someone approached you claiming their product would allow you to use 100% of your brain, would you buy it?   You are probably familiar with this scenario if you watched the thriller ‘Limitless’, released earlier this year, starring Bradley Cooper. The plot of ‘Limitless’ is based on one of the most commonly perpetuated […]

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Temporal Spacing and Learning: The Potential of Spaced Practice to Reduce Forgetting

Monday, September 26th, 2011

  The Winter 2011 Term is well underway at our University now and many of us return after, what is always at best, a well deserved break ending too soon; summer of course. Returning to our classes in various disciplines even just in the Faculty of Science we always seem to develop a sense of […]

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