Last week was the second week of my month-long project to get a foundation in quantum mechanics, with the entire project being livestreamed. Why I’m Tackling This Project The inspiration for this project came about a year ago. I stumbled upon 8.04, MIT’s first class in quantum physics and watched some of the lectures. While […]

A subject that has always confused and fascinated me was physics. When I was in high-school, I liked to read popular physics books like Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe or Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. The picture these books painted was a bizarre world. Space is a fabric. Time curves. Stuff is like […]

Acing exams isn’t the only goal of learning. Life is full of opportunities for learning things well that will never have a final test. Learning another language is a goal many people have. It’s also one that many people stumble on. They get stuck, give up and maybe even convince themselves they don’t have the […]

Below, I’d like to outline a simple strategy you can use to ace any exam you might have coming up. Although the specific strategy is my own, the approach is based on cognitive science. In particular, I’m going to look at five key ideas from cognitive science that are easy to miss, but extremely important […]