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  1. @john_s_wilkins Mmmm, no, I don't know of Bigelow's theory of Timaeus. Is there an article you can point me to? 2:17 AM Nov 25th from Tweetie in reply to john_s_wilkins
  2. @john_s_wilkins perhaps 500 is optimistic? 12th C memory scholars expected teachers to remember 100s of students But, faces vs. plants? 8:29 PM Nov 23rd from TweetDeck in reply to john_s_wilkins
  3. Reading history of botany in 1600s: Apparently 500 is the approx. limit of memory for species b4 a systematic taxonomy is req'd. 7:00 PM Nov 23rd from Echofon
  4. RT @brainpicker: Artist Christoph Niemann's "biodiversity" creations – puns made into foliage http://is.gd/4ZxZS 11:02 AM Nov 21st from Echofon
  5. http://twitpic.com/qdtvl - Prehensile hibiscus 10:00 AM Nov 21st from TwitPic
  6. Thanks for the RT @philosophybites & @kelsonbueno :) 3:50 AM Nov 20th from Tweetie in reply to philosophybites
  7. http://twitpic.com/q7po4 - Another use for a clothes dryer 2:27 AM Nov 20th from TwitPic
  8. New blog post: Information overload, commonplace books and the backlash against rote memory in the 18th Century http://bit.ly/3QI8ya 2:25 PM Nov 19th from Tweetie
  9. @john_s_wilkins I love the JHI! :) 2:40 AM Nov 19th from Tweetie in reply to john_s_wilkins
  10. 2/2 informing images of pedantry personified by the bore, the impolite, and the pedant" Hahaha! Journal of the History of Ideas. 65(4). 611. 1:48 AM Nov 19th from Tweetie
  11. 1/2 By the 18thC the memorization of sentences had come to be regarded as an obsolete practice... 1:47 AM Nov 19th from Tweetie
  12. @jamese we made a *good* decision. 2:46 PM Nov 17th from Echofon in reply to jamese
  13. New job in the 21st C. => personal librarians: Librarians to sort out the morass of accumulated personal data for historical preservation. 2:05 AM Nov 16th from Echofon
  14. A search engine that displays results in a concept map w/ key words http://kartoo.com/ More fun than googling yourself! #kartoo 2:33 AM Nov 13th from Tweetie
  15. @john_s_wilkins *snort* :) 2:16 AM Nov 10th from Tweetie in reply to john_s_wilkins
  16. http://twitpic.com/ozcch - @morganjaffit made crab-stuffed ravioli for dinner! Nom! 2:11 AM Nov 10th from TwitPic
  17. The only thing worse than a miss-spelled tweet is a follow up tweet explaining it. 12:17 AM Nov 10th from Echofon
  18. I'm eating organic kim chi from the farmer's market in a thunderstorm. #fb 3:40 AM Nov 5th from Tweetie
  19. The trauma of truth: Hard to sit still when presenters get facts wrong or espouse sloppy theory. Need strategies to molehill mountains. 6:36 PM Nov 3rd from Echofon
  20. Sophrosyne is a balanced or 'safe' mind. Hubris is an arrogant, proud mind. Then _______ is a meek, self-effacing mind? 2:57 PM Oct 31st from Tweetie
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  • Bio Memory researcher. PhD student in philosophy & cognitive science @ Rutgers University. Academic Skills Advisor @ Queensland University of Technology.
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