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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

~Gary Wolf

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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

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Topics: Always Ask Assumed Because Computers Fan Fiction Give Had Intelligence Machines Memory Our Practical Questions Science Science Fiction Some Supremely Them Would

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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

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Topics: Accessible Great Information Internet Make Promise Universally Useful World

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Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.

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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Artists Buyers Card Categories Checks Con Credit Credit Card Entire Fake Nearly Numbers Paying Rendered Sellers Share Sometimes Spam

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Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

~Gary Wolf

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The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

~Gary Wolf

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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

~Gary Wolf

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Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Arising Around Between Complex Definite Environment Experience Extremely Fooling Genes Interactions Interest Life Life Experience Many Mice Mutations Our Phenomena Products Specific Taught Traits Us

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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

~Gary Wolf

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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