Tag: aging

Stochastic Parrots

Hopefully giving you just what you asked for. This week I posted the following: Developing An Attitude of Gratitude – If you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. If you focus on what you have, you gain what you lack. Risky Business – Teachers are doing one of the most important…

How Exercise Can Help You Recall Words

How Exercise Can Help You Recall Words (nytimes.com)

Aerobic fitness may help you avoid lapses in your vocabulary.

This report reminds me of an episode of Westworld. Call them tip-of-the-tongue moments: those times we can’t quite call up the name or word that we know we know. These frustrating lapses are thought to be caused by a brief disruption in the brain’s ability to access a word’s sounds. We haven’t forgotten the word,…