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Doodling Is Good For Your Noodle

Posted February 27, 2009 9:35 AM

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

Doodling is often frowned upon in meetings and classrooms, but now scientist say it might help you remember details in an otherwise boring presentation. The back-of-the-envelope speculation as to why? Doodlers don't daydream as much. Forty test subjects - all rather smart folks (they are members of the research panel of the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge) - were made to listen to a dull phone message. It was 2.5 minutes long and contained names of people and places.

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03/02/2009 3:43 AM

Half the time blogs quote Brit sources on American stuff, and the other half they don't quote Brit sources when they may be relevant !

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