Mnemonics are useful for remembering stuff. (Shocking revelation, I know.) I barely know anything about history for example. But I remember "333 - Issos Keilerei", rhymes on German and means "333 - Issos Brawl". I didn't even remember what this was about until I looked it up just now on Wikipedia.
The Battle of Issus (also Issos) occurred in southern Anatolia, on 5 November 333 BC between the Hellenic League led by Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, led by Darius III. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Issus
But hey, I remembered this. My history teacher back in school did something right.
No, I don't think it was or is particularly useful, besides things like "brain fitness". It might have helped me back then to get a better grade, though. (Yes, we see now again how useless it is in many cases to memorize stuff for school/uni/whatever.)
"The More You Know"[1] is a series of public service announcements that has been running on NBC Universal programming in the United States since September 1989. Each clip typically begin with an educational message from a celebrity and conclude with an animated sequence of a comet trail created by Paul Johnson. Being one of the longest-running network public service campaigns to date, the PSA series has been widely parodied both online and in popular culture.
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Zacryon@feddit.org · 5 pts · 2y
Mnemonics are useful for remembering stuff. (Shocking revelation, I know.) I barely know anything about history for example. But I remember "333 - Issos Keilerei", rhymes on German and means "333 - Issos Brawl". I didn't even remember what this was about until I looked it up just now on Wikipedia.
But hey, I remembered this. My history teacher back in school did something right.
And now I know some critter stuff. Thanks!
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Is that knowledge useful in any way? Knowing a fight happened specifically in issos and specifically in 333 doesn't even help with historical context.
Zacryon@feddit.org · 2 pts · 2y
It taught the value of mnemonics. :D
No, I don't think it was or is particularly useful, besides things like "brain fitness". It might have helped me back then to get a better grade, though. (Yes, we see now again how useless it is in many cases to memorize stuff for school/uni/whatever.)
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Edit: You->The
Nice infograph!
The More You Know!
Edit2: forgot source; format
Source:
turbowafflz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Where's the abstract? I'm not reading this whole comment without knowing what it's about first
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y
Here is the about section:
chknbwl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
So shrimp are just sea hot dogs. Got it.
Kernal64@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Shrimps is bugs.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Hot bugs. Got it.
No, wait, don't got it - is it bug dogs??
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
Bugwurst
Twinkletoes@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Is an amphipod a sandwich?
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
Is chitinous exoskeleton a type of bread?
Mango@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I need more help than this.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I'm sure somebody here can give you that help....in the mean time, isn't this guy cute?
Mango@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Lolyeah kinda!
Kroxx@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Pill bugs are isopods right? They have a more hotdog-esque shape though.
pacmondo@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
up close they are hamburger