It’s hard to imagine a world in which all you can do with a thought is recall it: a world in which written words do not exist and the only way to hoard knowledge is to remember. That may sound like an ...

The Washington-raised journalist shares how he achieved his esoteric title — which included setting a record time of one minute and 40 seconds for memorizing a pack of playing cards — in his book, ...

Occasionally at the library we hear, “This is a reference librarian. She knows everything.” We, of course, blush modestly and deny any such super powers. At that point, the speaker might say, “Well, ...

Without time, there would be no need for a memory. But without a memory, would there be such a thing as time? I don’t mean time in the sense that, say, physicists speak of it: the fourth dimension, ...

First New York Times health and medical editor Barbara Strauch showed us that, contrary to popular misconception, the grown-up brain works better than ever. Now Slate science writer Joshua Foer ...