Want to learn more quickly, and retain more of what you learn? Neuroscience says boosting your memory is relatively easy.

Good news: research shows we all tend to learn at the same rate. The only difference is our relative starting points.

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Sooner or later, everyone fails at something. But does everyone learn from their failures? In fact, the evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. When researchers ...

Recently, a close friend’s niece was having trouble graduating from college. She needed to pass a math class to graduate but wouldn’t take it because she feared flunking it. A belief that she just ...

Contrary to conventional thinking, it's never too late to learn a new language. Use these tips to get started. For more than two years, Dulcie Shoener of Milwaukee has done daily German lessons on her ...

Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and how you can use its waters to reflect on and improve your life. Be it a skill, craft, or just general ...

Blackboard Learn 9.1 translates legacy courses into what it calls Original courses. But even those Original courses receive some noteworthy improvements. First and foremost, they’ll look as good ...

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There are only 24 hours in a day, and usually about a third of that is spent sleeping. So, the overambitious have always wondered: Is it possible to make use of this time and learn a new skill or even ...