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by tmalsburg2 1437 days ago
Completely unsurprising. The bottleneck in reading is not visual recognition of words or eye movements. Source: decades of actual research on this topic.
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We'll figure something out though. It was big news about ten years back in sports medicine that cooling off the lower arms was unreasonably effective for recovery, even, IIRC, better than a full body ice bath.

I don't know if they still do it, but at the time they were showing off these weird baggies you put over your arms like oversized mittens and ran coolant through.

We know sleeping helps with memory retention. We know that NSAIDs influence experiences of emotional pain. What other folk remedies and completely random things also work on memory? I forget, is caffeine now established wisdom or do they keep going back and forth on that?

Headline: Does Bionic Reading actually work? We timed over 2,000 readers and the results might surprise you

First line: tl;dr. Actually no, the results will probably not surprise you

fuck this