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Just right for the weekend – squirrels are taking over the world! Aren’t they cute? Enjoy the sun and your weekend (at least we do here in Zurich)!

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056192/He-playing-Nutcracker-Squirrel-captured-childrens-piano–help-peanut-butter.html

Our new colleague Patrick just started this week and is already ruling Memonic! More about him soon, happy Twelfth Day!

It’s been a year since we’ve created this funny little video about cookie baking with Memonic. Due to popular demand we’d like to bring it up again! Have fun (and don’t miss the out-takes!) :-)

It’s our Hackaton. What did we hack? Quite possibly the next exciting iteration of Memonic. Stay tuned.

Picture credits: Flickr / Helga Weber

Do you sometimes feel like you forget too many things? Well, probably. Otherwise, why would you be using Memonic? ;-) A recently published study conducted by the Columbia University in New York showed amazing new insights in the way we memorize (or don’t, eventually).

They looked at how we keep information and knowledge in the 21st century with omnipresent Internet access. What the found is interesting: thanks to Google & Co our memorizing capabilities are decreasing. The essence of the study is: we keep the location of where we can find the information rather than the content of the information itself.

What they did is quite simple: Two groups of test persons had to memorize 40 pieces of information. One just got the pure snippets while the others did also get the location where the information was stored (which was cryptically and not in mind-friendly path). While the first group could remember more of the contents, the second group proved extended memory of where they could find it – and thus were able to get more information eventually.

It’s not a bad thing that we lose the capability of remembering information, since we have Memonic luckily ;-)