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In the Psychology Today article Spicing Up Your Memory, it is revealed that a 2003 study involving 44 healthy young adults – not seniors suffering from memory loss – showed sage oil improves short-term memory. While this study is intriguing, I would like to know the following:
1) Would these findings hold in a much larger experimental group? Presumably only 22 of the 44 received the sage oil. That’s a small number of people on whom to base this conclusion about sage oil’s effects.
2) Was this placebo-controlled study also double blind?
3) How many milligrams of sage oil did each member of the experimental group receive?
4) Would the desired effects last over a period of several months, or do the benefits wane with use of the supplement?
Also worth noting is the article’s statement that “… the clinical trials conducted so far have used sage oil extracted from a species different from the common garden sage.”
Have you ever taken a photo with your iPhone and found distracting background elements that ruined the shot? Now you can salvage some of those pictures with this simple technique. While viewing the photo you wish to crop, use your fingers on the iPhone’s screen to zoom in as much as necessary to eliminate the undesirable background item(s). Then do a screen capture by clicking the on/off button while holding down the Home button. Your new screen capture — the cropped photo you wanted — has now been saved to your photo collecton! You’re all set to email your modified photo to friends, blog it, etc. Of course, this trick can result in too much detail loss if you zoom too much, but for quick cropping without a photo editor, this approach is hard to beat.
