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Death as the death of memories in Blade Runner. Here's the death of 'beautiful' Gorgythion in Homer's Iliad, translated by Richard Lattimore: "He bent drooping his head to one side, as a garden poppy bends beneath the weight of its yield and the rains of springtime" Interestingly, Gorgythion's Homeric epithet is 'blameless', as used to describe magical, half-mythical people, invented creatures perhaps. 
RT @newscientist: Brain science finally enters the classroom http://t.co/Ev9bdHYZ (free reg) < 
"New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions shows how auditory working memory and musical aptitude are intrinsically related to reading ability, and provides a biological basis for this link" But (see my comments) Via David McGavock 
It sounds like science fiction, but neuroscientists have identified a molecule in mice that, when suppressed, significantly boosts memory. It's meant as a radical treatment for Alzheimer's patients, but there's no reason the rest of ... 
From a comment: "Due to its evolutionary history, the brain shows compromises in its structures. For example, the decision making region has a limited capacity, and experiments show that deciding whether to have coffee with biscuits instead of cereal for breakfast, can affect our subsequent decisions later in the day, even those decisions that have nothing to do with culinary choices. Memories are not stored like a video recording, but salient features filtered by our individual schemas, are stored in different regions, which explains why when recalling common shared events, one person will report what happened differently from someone else." 
Alzheimers disease; there is a history of it in my family. My Father's Grandmother didn't ... They isolated a compound using multiple distinct cell culture models of neurodegeneration. 
'What It Means to Be Human': A Historical Perspective, 1800-2011The AtlanticThe difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, is certainly one of degree and not of kind. |
Google may be hurting our memory, recent research out of Columbia University shows. 
Memory Apps- iPad project in Care Homes Life LifeStoryNetwork http://t.co/mZkOsaVf great link thanks! 
The historian and activist dedicated his life to "the countless small actions of unknown people". 
"The Pisces Age began roughly 2160 years ago. Under it's influence organized religion spread like a tsunami (often just as destructively) within and beyond the so-called 'civilized' world. Like the magi who came bearing gifts for the new 'king', Buddha, Jesus and Muhammed came out of the east, bearing teachings for the infant us, but instead, cults formed around the teachers themselves and, well, you know the rest. The same old, tribal wars continued raging, but in the name of "God."" 
adapted excerpt from "What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite," Prometheus Books. 
Late 90s essay by a Bulgarian, shaped by the Balkan mess: forgetting as a necessary cultural strategy for transformation, reconciliation, the emerging negative impact of social media. How social 'remembering' and 'forgetting' were changing, even then, with a "gradual disappearance of the political dimension in our world", where politics is "the capacity to create identities... (from) ruptures in the flow of time and liberating the future from the past". 
"Memory of the Modern examines stock markets, tango dancers, vagabond murderers, neurology, monument destruction, and colonial policies to document how individuals and institutions shaped memory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." "Memory has a history. The Classical world ordered and valued events differently than the Medieval world; which, in turn, was replaced by "the memory" of the Renaissance.... the understanding, value, and uses of memory changed yet again at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, becoming distinctively 'modern.'" |
