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The Great Courses Plus. Hi, I’m Thomas Frank, this is
Crash Course Study Skills, and if you happen to be watching this at whatever
point in the future that we all get neural implants to
let us store our memories on servers in space, what I’m about to tell you is
woefully inaccurate. Also, do we have flying cars yet? For those of you who still rely on that
mushy gray stuff in your cranium to remember
things, though, listen up. Today we’re digging into how your memory
works and how you can make it work better. At least, I think we are. Nick, we’re not filming those makeup tutorials
today, are we? [Theme Music] The science of how memory works is
complicated, to say the least. After all, how do we explain how a bunch of
nerv...