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Mnemonics for Study: Additional Resources

Because those reading Mnemonics for Study may be doing so on a Kindle or other e-reader that is not optimized for the viewing of images or tables, or indeed for working through a workbook, I am making available here a number of resources.

Here you will find:

A printable document with the original color images (omitted from the print edition)

Links

Errata (if and when they come to hand)

 

Web Resources

The famous painting of “Gilles”, a clown in a baggy white suit, by Watteau http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/pierrot-formerly-known-gilles

The painting This Will be the Last Time, Little Father! by Georges Rouault http://www.thirdmill.org/worship/rouault-l/image35.htm

Science songs

Flanders & Swann’s song describing the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics (you can hear them on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb2kBFqrZx8 or read the lyrics at http://www.iankitching.me.uk/humour/hippo/entropy.html)

Tom Lehrer’s song of the Periodic Table (you can hear him on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8dtquYDXEU )

More “science songs” at http://ww3.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/links.html (designed for instruction: audio files, associated lesson plans, etc).

Drug Discovery Today also has an article recounting the lyrics for various songs, by scientists, celebrating various science subjects, which you can read at www.mnstate.edu/malott/Molecular04/SingaSongofScience.pdf (it's in pdf format).

Check out the Science Songwriters' Association.

Many well-known poems & prose texts have also been put to music — for example, The Lied and Art Song Texts site has 87 listed for Shakespeare.

References

Kimmel, K.J. 1998. The Development and Evaluation of a Music Mnemonic-Enhanced Multimedia Computer-Aided Science Instructional Module. Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Teaching and Learning. Available online at https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-121798-131934/unrestrict…

Cysarz, D., Von Bonin, D., Lackner, H., Moser, M. & Bettermann, H. 2004. Oscillations of heart rate and respiration synchronize during poetry recitation. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 287(2), H579-H587. http://www.rhythmen.de/?download=ats_sync.pdf

Raugh, M.R., Schupbach, R.D. & Atkinson, R.C. 1977. Teaching a large Russian language vocabulary by the mnemonic keyword method.U.S. Office of Naval Research, Technical Report 256. http://suppes-corpus.stanford.edu/techreports/IMSSS_256.pdf

 

Errata

Please send an email to errata@wayz.co.nz if you find any errors, however minor, in the book.