http://www.tribstar.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:06:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_121190656.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_121190656.html Recently, some presidential candidates have apparently forgotten something that others expected them to remember. Also some superdelegates have switched allegiance from one candidate to the other, revealing that they forgot the candidate they originally favored. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:33:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_100203429.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_100203429.html Every family has one. Every group of friends has one, too: a person who tends to remember almost everything that is going on. This person knows all about upcoming events (concerts, lectures), what is at the movies, and what’s on TV. Sometimes, this person even knows what is going on among family members, friends and acquaintances. Accurate gossip is a valuable commodity. Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:18:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_082162247.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_082162247.html Indiana State’s softball team played 19 games before ever stepping foot on the Price Field diamond Friday for a doubleheader against Drake. The homecoming wasn’t a happy one — Drake swept ISU with 5-1 and 6-2 victories — but the long-term concern is on the mound, where star pitcher Darcy Wood is battling a shoulder injury. Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:10:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_065221008.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_065221008.html These days, when you visit a doctor’s office for the first time, you are given a form on which you are supposed to record important facts about your medical history. Unfortunately, these forms ask for considerable information, much of which few human beings can recall. More unfortunate yet is that different doctors use different forms. Consequently, we are required to fill out medical history forms calling for essentially the same information all over again for each new doctor. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:01:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_037220231.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_037220231.html Just to be clear at the outset, this column does not endorse or reject the symbol of a political party. Also, the column has nothing to do with a rock group called Elephant Memory that Yoko Ono and John Lennon promoted in the early 1970s. Instead, the topic of this column is the memory of real live elephants. Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:49:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_009205203.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_009205203.html Some people regard memory as an open or shut case. We either remember or don’t remember. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:43:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_339184318.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_339184318.html We all are forgetful occasionally and leave something of ours behind in public places such as stores, shopping centers, and at the homes of family, friends and acquaintances. For example, we may forget to take with us things like a pair of gloves, an umbrella, a scarf or a jacket. Because we are all in this world together, we should forgive each other's memory failures. Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:29:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_311212715.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_311212715.html We all are forgetful on occasion. Some of us are more forgetful than others. If our forgetting inconveniences someone else, we hope that they will not be angry and will forgive our lapse. However, in addition to the possible anger or forgiving, there is another way someone might respond to our memory failure. Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:28:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_276173023.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_276173023.html In the past, this column has discussed the factors that facilitate problem solving and critical thinking. For example, such factors include understanding a problem in the first place, ignoring solutions tried previously, avoiding being fixated on a solution to a similar problem and by overloading one’s brain. Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:25:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_248172650.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_248172650.html Much of our lives are spent eating. As a result, we have many memories of breakfast, lunch or dinner, as well as for in between snacks. Sometimes we may want to remember what we ate on a certain occasion. This column considers what is the best way to recover the memory of what was eaten. Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:29:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_185173011.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_185173011.html We often hear that it is important to be normal. Certainly we prefer to have a normal body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure. However, we probably prefer not to be normal on some occasions. I am not saying we should prefer to be abnormal, but we want to be distinguished for something, to know something or do something better than others. Wed, 02 May 2007 19:38:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_122194001.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_122194001.html I do not mean to suggest that you or I look stupid a lot of the time. Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:57:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_115205954.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_115205954.html Part of this column will be devoted to an announcement. Another part will be devoted to my claim that Hautians are among the brightest people on the planet. Finally I will discuss a public demonstration of how important remembering can be in everyday life. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_108220357.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_108220357.html Here is a topic that we haven’t covered for quite a while. It hasn’t been covered because there were so many other things to discuss. Nevertheless, it probably will be beneficial for most of us to review the key ideas about how to learn names. Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:40:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_101234145.html http://www.tribstar.com/a_sharper_mind/local_story_101234145.html A few months back, this column honored noteworthy memory failures in the Forgetting Halls of Fame I and II. It looks like these Halls of Fame have been very helpful to readers because very few failures have been happening to the people around me.