The bucket analogy is used to describe the way people learn or remember things when they're exposed to something new. The bucket's size expresses the individuals capacity for learning, or how much they can juggle before they start to forget what they were studying thirty minutes ago or other wise drone off. The amount of material that becomes long term memory is considered to be whatever passes through a "hole" in the bottom of the bucket. The size of the hole represents how quickly the individual can process new information or how long it may take to absorb something new.
Explanation aside, it's easy to slam your brain with new information by reading or just surfing the net. On a short tangent some people think the internet has changed the human psyche by over-exposing us to information. They call it "data overload", how cool is that? But back to the point, but studying small sessions and then taking a break it allows your brain to process the information in a meaningful way as opposed to the three hour lectures we've all had in college that end up just sounding like white noise at the end. Haha, come to think it since I'm studying Japanese my white noise is in a foreign language so it's even easier to lose focus during class.
There was an eclipse today which reminded me of some basic science. The full eclipse is only viewable from a limited point of view on the earth. In this case it was on some small island near Okinawa. So even if it wasn't cloudy today, we would have seen a partial eclipse. The reason I bring this up is because in Heroes the eclipse is total in every location they're supposed to be at. That can't be right, right? Oh, and here is a shot of the eclipse that Mami took in Fukuoka which is much closer to the ideal location than I am in Osaka.
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