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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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How Stuff Works: How to Create a Memory Palace

Hannibal Lecter uses memory palaces for his patients records. He even includes music too for the rooms that he's going into. So I decided to use the space that I'm occupying right now, the How Stuff Works podcast room slash podcast chamber. And so these were the things. It was a soy creamer, Engelhopper's mustard, ant traps, frozen fruit and toilet paper. The idea of the memory palace is to create a mental house - which could serve as a queue for information retrieval.

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