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Mems & Puns - an Introduction

Mems & Puns – an Introduction

As you know, mems are ways of linking words to vivid images to make the word more memorable. Mems work because we remember seeing things much more strongly than we remember thinking things. A vivid image comes into your brain much more readily than the meaning of a word. But the ears are important, too:...

Mem of the Day: Sunday, November 8th 2009

Hello – my name’s Jonny and I head up the team that is creating mems for the site. If you are new here, mems are the individual mental images that help you remember a specific word by tying it to something memorable. Each word you learn has a number of mems to choose from, or...