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- Season 1 What self-driving cars can learn from brainless slime mold
- Season 1 NASA's InSight spacecraft just launched to Mars
- Season 1 Testing the limits of human vision
- Season 1 Blood types are a 20-million-year mystery
- Season 1 Bees are going extinct...but not the ones you think
- Season 1 How to memorize 70,000 digits of Pi
- Season 1 The microbial truth of how your cheese gets made
- Season 1 How this 50-year-old NASA material could kill cancer
- Season 1 Inside a volcano scientist’s campaign for Congress
- Season 1 Test firing a new rocket engine (and watching it explode)
- Season 1 Your old phone is a veritable gold mine
- Season 1 Why graphene hasn’t taken over the world...yet
- Season 1 Why wildfire season never stops
- Season 1 How NYC plans to survive the next superstorm
- Season 1 This monster plant is trying to take over. What if we let it?
- Season 1 Why Tesla is building city-sized batteries
- Season 1 88,000 tons of radioactive waste – and nowhere to put it
Verge Science - Season 1 Episode 6 How to memorize 70,000 digits of Pi
0.00 48 minutes The “memory palace” is a famous technique that makes incredible feats of memory possible (the world record for “number of digits of Pi memorized” is a whopping 70,000). And yet, most of us struggle to remember a new phone number. We perform some simple tests on ourselves to make better use of our frustratingly limited recall.
