- Does faking amnesia permanently distort your memory?
In other words, pretending to have amnesia doesn’t hurt your memory, but rehearsing the correct answers improves it. [via]
- A horror novel on toilet paper?
Here’s the spooky rationale behind the story: “Toilets in Japan were traditionally tucked away in a dark corner of the house due to religious beliefs. Parents would tease children that a hairy hand might pull them down into the dark pool below.” [via]
- Take the Amazon Statistically Improbable Phrase Quiz. I like it in theory more than practice, mainly because in practice I couldn’t guess any of them correctly. [via]
- Two zombie links: the Zombie Bible [via] and, in the scary real world, parasitic flies turn fire ants into zombies [via]
- And finally, not a new link — but it’s new to me — the case against Candy Land:
I realize that games of pure chance have a long history, but that doesn’t make them any less moronic. (And it goes without saying that Checkers, Chess, Go, and other strategy games are great tests of decision-making.) I take this as another example of how much more mentally challenging kids’ culture has become in recent years. The digital generation doesn’t seem to have much of an appetite for games structured around total randomness. [via]
I got a few of the Statistically Improbably Phrase books, but, man… They were generally either immediately obvious or left me with no clue at all. 🙂