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Ed Speaking in Manhattan

Ed Speaking in Manhattan

After what professors, students, and community members declared, the “best talk ever given on [Princeton] campus”, “interactive, entertaining, and intellectual,” “fascinating,” and “humorous,” Ed is taking his unique and powerful lecture to the heart of New York. We encourage all followers of Memrise, students, and people with a genuine desire to learn to join us...
Memrise wins Princeton TigerLaunch Business Competition!

Memrise wins Princeton TigerLaunch Business Competition!

Our recent efforts came to fruition on February 21st, 2009, at Princeton’s TigerLaunch Super Saturday; a head-to-head business competition featuring a fierce roster of entrepreneurs pitching their companies to several tenured judges. With tension slowly mounting throughout the day, Greg’s impressive stage presence and delivery crescendoed to a seamless performance of the final Memrise pitch to the...

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Memrise.com is an online learning platform that makes use of the most advanced memory techniques to help users remember information faster and more effectively than with any other method. Memrise is founded by Greg Detre, a Princeton PhD candidate studying the psychology of memory and forgetting, and Ed Cooke, a Grandmaster of Memory and acclaimed lecturer...