An email from my friend Jon Simons at Cambridge:

Please excuse the spam, but I’d be very grateful if people would be kind enough to spread the word to their students and colleagues about an online memory experiment we’ve launched this week in collaboration with the Guardian newspaper.  We’re hoping that thousands of people from all over the world will take part.

See press release: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/test-your-memory/

You can test your memory at the Guardian experiment website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/memorystudy

Thanks so much!

Best wishes,
Jon Simons.

I haven’t clicked the links to see what this is about, but in principle I like the idea of large N studies on memory collected online and given who it is from, it’s likely scientifically sensible.