The New York Times

HIS OWN SYSTEM OF MNEMONICS; A Married Man Devises a Remarkable Scheme That Failed Him but Once and Then He Had a Good Explanation.

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THE WEEK

10 super-helpful mnemonic tricks

1. The rhyme. For hundreds of years, schoolchildren started the study of American history with: "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue." 2. The verbal gimmick. Clearly, modern civilization would be ...
Scientific American

A Memory Trick

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Yahoo

Pedro Pascal shares the 'psychotic' way he memorizes his lines, and people are comparing it to Zodiac Killer's ciphers

Pedro Pascal has shared the bizarre mnemonic system he uses to memorize his lines. The actor's technique involves writing down the first letter of every word in a vertical column. Users on X compared ...
Lifehacker

Remember Phone Numbers and Other Long Strings of Digits by Creating a Mnemonic

If you have trouble remembering long numbers—like phone numbers—Redditor Fealiks shares a simple way to keep everything straight. All you need to do is assign the numbers to letters, and create a ...
PBS

Can You Remember The Planets?

For decades, schoolkids have memorized the names of nine planets, and their sequence from the sun, with the help of this mnemonic: My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas Now, the ...