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- WAK -- Why
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- I am the author of the WORDY Scrabble (tm) word study system. WORDY includes
- a rather elaborate suite of utilities for generating custom word lists for
- study or memorization. When I wrote the list generating utilities, I
- visualized printing hard copy of the nicely reformatted lists, then studying
- the printed copy at leisure, maybe while eating lunch, commuting to work,
- between rounds of golf, or whenever convenient. What an incongruity, though,
- to use high tech computing power to generate the lists, then needing to
- revert to "old fashioned" study methods.
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- It seemed only natural to employ my programming skills to create a
- tachistoscope type list viewer. This tool would flash the selected word list
- in approximately Scrabble (tm) tile-sized letters on the screen at a
- user-specified rate ranging from under one word per second to 40 or more.
- Depending on the speed chosen, this could enable either outright rote
- memorization of the list (slow speed) or painlessly enable the subconscious
- to "absorb" the words into long-term recognition memory. WAK, or Word
- Acquisition Kinescope, was the result of my efforts.
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- WAK -- How
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- It is well documented that humans are especially sensitive to certain
- frequencies. One such "magic" frequency is 60 Hz (cycles per second). The
- omnipresent hum of electricity in the walls of our homes, the buzz of the
- fluorescent light, the flicker of incandescent lighting sensitize us to this
- frequency. Even the field refresh (flicker) rate of television takes place
- at 60 Hz. Other important frequencies are the 24 Hz frame rate of motion
- pictures, the 3 Hz "telic" frequency, and the 1.2 and 1.0 Hz frequencies
- investigated by the Bulgarian researcher Georgi Lozanov. Some of the work
- done by scientist Karl Pribram is also suggestive (see references).
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- WAK may be set up to display at the "interesting" frequencies discussed
- [running at 60 Hz or more requires a Pentium (tm) 90 or faster machine]. You
- may experiment to determine which frequencies work most effectively for you
- personally (it will likely vary according to the time of day, your energy
- level and mood, phase of the moon, biorhythm cycle, etc.).
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- In accordance with the "Super Learning" principles discussed in the book of
- the same name (see references), WAK is most effectively used practicing a
- measured, even breathing tempo (one breath per second suggested) and
- accompanied by slow-tempo Baroque instrumental music in the background. Some
- suggested music pieces are Bach's orchestral suites, Handel's Water Music,
- the harpsichord concertos of Rameau, Scarlatti, Couperin, and Soler, and the
- trumpet concertos of De La Lande and Biber. (Warning: do not play rock music
- as this may result in unpredictable and possibly undesired consequences.)
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- FEEDBACK
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- User feedback to this preliminary version of WAK would be greatly
- appreciated. Reports and suggestions from users are absolutely essential for
- improved future updates of this and any other software. Even if you choose
- not to register, your comments would be welcome.
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- REFERENCES
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- Ostrander, Sheila and Lynn Schroeder: SUPERLEARNING, New York, Delacorte
- Press, 1979, ISBN 0-440-08354-0, $9.95 <may be out of print>.
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- Talbot, Michael: THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE, New York, HarperCollins, 1992,
- ISBN 0-06-092258-3, $10.00.
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- Scrabble is a trademark of the Milton Bradley Co., Inc., a Hasbro, Inc., div-
- ision.
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- Pentium is a trademark of the Intel Corp.
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- WAK is not a trademark.
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- WORDY is not a trademark.
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- WAK is shareware. If you have tried WAK and found it worthwhile, you may send
- a suggested $1.00 contribution. This will make you eligible for updates and
- support, as well as putting you on my "mailing list" for my other software,
- including WORDY. It will also earn you the gratitude of a "starving"
- shareware author, not to mention "brownie points" in Heaven.
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- M\Cooper
- PO Box 237
- St. David, AZ 85630-0237
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- E-mail: thegrendel@theriver.com
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