This shared post describes an attempt to build a mnemonic system of mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes:
There’s a companion site:
And a browser plugin to show the character cards while browsing articles mentioning the genes.
The post describes the mapping and generation approach.
Some character cards:
And
This is indeed impressive. It gives me some idea for a memory project I have on my “to do but don’t really know if and when” list: hormones.
Like ghrelin, testosterone, cortisol… there are a lot of names that I already know (and vaguely know what they do), but it would be neat to have a systematized system to slowly add new knowledge on the subject (because if I only read about it, without a system to anchor the new things I learn, it won’t stick).
