It’s hard to imagine a world in which all you can do with a thought is recall it: a world in which written words do not exist and the only way to hoard knowledge is to remember. That may sound like an ...

Alexandrian scholars listed Simonides of Ceos as one of antiquity's nine lyric poets. He and his works are discussed in Plato's "Protagoras" and Mary Renault used him as the narrator of her novel of ...

The Washington-raised journalist shares how he achieved his esoteric title — which included setting a record time of one minute and 40 seconds for memorizing a pack of playing cards — in his book, ...

Maybe your mother was right. When she said you’d forget your head if it wasn’t attached, she might have been on to something. You completely missed an important meeting yesterday. You’ve left vital ...

When science journalist Joshua Foer attended the U.S. Memory Championship in 2005, one of the "memory athletes" claimed that, with practice, an average person could perform the same mental tricks -- ...