Ancient Celtic bards were famous for the sheer quantity of information they could memorize. This included thousands of songs, stories, chants and poems that could take hours to recite in full.
Today we are pretty spoiled. Practically the whole of human knowledge is conveniently available at our fingertips. Why worry about memorizing something when we can simply Google it?
The answer seems pretty evident when we go into a panic after losing our smartphones!
Long before the ancient Celts, Aboriginal Australians were recording vast scores of knowledge to memory and passing it to successive generations.
Aboriginal people demonstrate that their oral traditions are not only highly detailed and complex, but they can survive – accurately – for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years. Read more.
Heads up to people in bioanth, osteology, or any other field where learning all the finicky parts of the human skeleton comes in handy. There’s an awesome (and FREE) app called Essential Skeleton 4 that not only lets you look at everything from a variety of angles, but also quizzes you on them.
In no time you’ll be able to confidently point out the “pisiform articular surface of the right triquetral carpal”. Totally a fun ice breaker at parties. Also an easy way to not fail human skeletal biology this semester.
I have this app! It’s very useful. Honestly I didn’t expect this much out of a free app. I’ve paid for other anatomy-related apps that had far less content and detail.
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