Are you finding it hard to remember important dates and telephone numbers? Did you just talk to a new acquaintance and seconds later couldn't remember her name? You're not alone! The fact is all of us fail to retain information at one point or another. You see, in the memory business, nobody's perfect. Even Einstein (yes, Albert Einstein, the great scientist) in his time could recall so much information, but you know what? Whenever he finished the day's work at the lab, he always asked his wife for directions on how to get home. This is incredible, but true. So don't feel too bad! read more ...
This document was scanned and corrected from a 1955 printing of a pamphlet published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. Cambridge 42, Mass. Copyright 1949.
The text has not been altered or edited to ‘bring it up to date.’ It is a product of its times, written just after World War II. Physicists and physics students are referred to as ‘he’ not out of sexist motivation, but is a reflection of the plain fact that at that period of history almost all physicists and physics majors were male.read more ...
