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“Love Hurts” MVI 4962
Tom Sitter at The Moth in Madison StorySLAM (Feb. 13, 2017)
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Zapping the Brain at Certain Times Improves Memory
When researchers delivered electrical stimulation stimulation to the brain at very specific times, the participants’ memory improved. By Agata Blaszczak-Boxe.
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Doll in Shadow
Alzheimer's destroyed my mother's memory, but she remembered the doll. By Maria Browning.
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Rules of memory 'beautifully' rewritten
What really happens when we make and store memories has been unravelled in a discovery that surprised even the scientists who made it. The US and Japanese team found that the brain "doubles up" by simultaneously making two memories of events. One is for the here-and-now and the other for a lifetime, they found. It had been thought that all memories start as a short-term memory and are then slowly converted into a long-term one.
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An ancient memorization strategy might cause lasting changes to the brain
Weird as it might sound, there are competitive rememberers out there who can memorize a deck of cards in seconds or dozens of words in minutes. So, naturally, someone decided to study them. It turns out that practicing their techniques doesn't just improve your memory — it can also change how your brain works.
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Maybe You, Too, Could Become A Super Memorizer
After six weeks of training, people could memorize twice as much. Areas of the brain had begun communicating in new ways — a lot like what happens inside the heads of world memory champions. By Rae Ellen Bichell.
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Love and Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street
A discarded photo album reveals a rich history of black lives, from the segregated South to Harlem dance halls to a pretty block in Crown Heights. By Annie Correal.
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What will all the ‘stuff’ you own mean when you're older?
Which objects would you choose to tell the story of your life? By Gemma Carney.
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How to Build a Time Machine
The concept is a lot newer than most people realize. By Maria Konnikova.
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Forgotten Childhood Memories Still Shape Your Life
Much of your identity is formed during moments you won't remember. By Erika Hayasaki.
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On Nostalgia
“I suspect that my father made a choice, and it meant concealing the past in order to live, with presence, in the present.” By Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.
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The World’s Greatest Living Animator And The Masterpiece He May Never Finish
Yuri Norstein’s four-decade quest to finish ‘The Overcoat.’ By Brian Phillips.
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How America Expunges Bad Memories
America is a place that expunges unpleasant memories that belie the happier vision of its “exceptionalism,” most notably the brutal ugliness of the Vietnam War and more recent war crimes in the Middle East, observes Michael Brenner.
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Would it be ethical to implant false memories in therapy?
We can implant false memories with increasing ease – and it may well help you to live a healthier, happier life. But what are the ethics? By Robert Nash.
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New Startup Aims to Commercialize a Brain Prosthetic to Improve Memory
Kernel wants to build a neural implant based on neuroscientist Ted Berger’s memory research. By Eliza Strickland. (Aug. 16, 2016)
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The art that shows what goes on deep in the human brain
Sleep paralysis and imagined memories - exploring the edges of human consciousness. By Paul Kerley. (Feb. 29, 2016)
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Why I love my possessions as a mirror and a gallery of me
I am my things and my things are me. I don’t want to give them up: they are narrative prompts for the story of my life. By Lee Randall.
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Stories Latent in the Landscape
Spirits, Time Slips, and “Super-Psi.” By Eric Wargo.
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Cinnamon may be fragrant medicine for the brain
If Dr. Kalipada Pahan's research pans out, the standard advice for failing students might one day be: Study harder and eat your cinnamon!
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Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia
Somehow an elderly woman who struggles to recognise people or where she is can tap in to the musical training of her youth to play nearly 400 songs by ear. By Aviva Rutkin. (Jul 9, 2016)
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