A fun bonus: we explain the Bell inequality, a result showing that quantum mechanics simply cannot be explained by what physicists call a "locally realistic" theory.
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In more everyday terms, the Bell inequality shows that the world is not at all as it appears, that quantum mechanics (and experimental result) simply cannot be explained by common sense.
Something very strange indeed is going on in quantum mechanics.
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The essay significantly extends the mnemonic medium (and memory systems in general). Spaced repetition memory systems are usually designed for declarative memory, testing you repeatedly on some fact.
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But the cognitive science literature suggests that the spacing effects also works for procedural memory. And so we introduce a new class of questions, asking users to work out (in a spaced way) multiple variations of basic applications of quantum mechanical ideas.
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We explain in the essay.
