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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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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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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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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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How to Build a Time Machine
The concept is a lot newer than most people realize. By Maria Konnikova.
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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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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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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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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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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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Doll in Shadow
Alzheimer's destroyed my mother's memory, but she remembered the doll. By Maria Browning.
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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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“Love Hurts” MVI 4962
Tom Sitter at The Moth in Madison StorySLAM (Feb. 13, 2017)
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Beloved Curve — Using Double Exposures, Sarah Amy Fishlock Reflects on the Cycle of Life
Too often the humankind puts itself at the center of any reflection on the meaning of life, but the truth is our planet—not to speak about the entire universe—has existed since long before we came on to the scene, and will probably outlive us. The beauty of Beloved Curve, a recent conceptual photography series by 31 year-old Scottish photographer Sarah Amy Fishlock, is the simplicity with which it connects the existential theme of the incessant cycle of life to her grieving process for her father's death through the intelligent use of double exposures.
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Study: Better memory makes people tire of experiences more quickly
We're fickle creatures. At least if we can remember to be, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas researcher of marketing and consumer behavior. "People with larger working memory capacities actually encode information more deeply," said Noelle Nelson, lead author of the work, which was published in the Journal of Consumer Research. "They remember more details about the things they've experienced, and that leads them to feel like they've had it more. That feeling then leads to the 'large-capacity' people getting tired of experiences faster."
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Marijuana helps old mice learn new tricks—and remember them
Marijuana appears to improve the memory and learning abilities of old mice. Scientists discovered low doses of its main psychoactive ingredient—cannabinoid THC—can reverse the age-related decline in cognitive abilities, a finding that could lead to scientists figuring out a way of slowing brain aging in humans. Researchers are increasingly examining THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) for its potential medical benefits. In the U.K., Oxford University recently launched a £10 million ($13 million) program to...
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Five Leading Theories of What Dreams Actually Are
Prophecies, memories, and more. By Drake Baer. (Oct. 10, 2016)
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Why Aren’t You Laughing?
There was my sunny, likable mother, and there was the dark one who’d call late at night. Should we have intervened when her drinking got out of hand? By David Sedaris.
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Memory-enhancing drug reverses effects of traumatic brain injury in mice.
If it works in humans, the compound could help reverse memory decline in patients.
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The Strange Similarity of Neuron and Galaxy Networks
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure. By Franco Vazza, Alberto Feletti.
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