Mental athletics at the Memory Olympics | Science | guardian.co.uk

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Joshua Foer describes what it’s like to compete in the USA Memory Championship, and we meet the master of ceremonies at the Ig Nobel awards, Marc Abrahams

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2012/mar/12/science-weekly-podcast-memory-olympics

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