How The Brain Performs ‘Mental Time Travel’
In one important way, we are capable of traveling back in time. Through memory, we can return to childhood, go back to the moment we first fell in love or…
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Shutterbug Parents and Overexposed Lives
Future Tense By TEDDY WAYNE In “The Entire History of You,” the third episode of the dystopian BBC series “Black Mirror,” humans have developed implanted memory “grains” that record everything…
Shutterbug Parents and Overexposed Lives
Future Tense By TEDDY WAYNE In “The Entire History of You,” the third episode of the dystopian BBC series “Black Mirror,” humans have developed implanted memory “grains” that record everything…
Was Brian Williams a Victim of False Memory?
How reliable is human memory? Most of us believe that our memory is like a video camera, capturing an accurate record that can be reviewed at a later date. But…
Recent history knows — quite accurately, Mr. Williams — other false memories
Television anchor Bryan Williams isn’t the first person to be embarrassed by claiming a remembrance that, well, never really happened. Recent history shows how several famous figures suffered what one…
Cut Brian Williams a break on Iraq claim
The NBC anchor issued an abject apology in his “Nightly News” program Wednesday, admitting he’d falsely claimed to have been in a Chinook helicopter shot down over Iraq 12 years…
How To Remember Things Like A 20-Year-Old
Who hasn’t lost track of someone’s name or spaced an appointment, blaming it on a midlife memory lapse? This can be scary when you’re considering tackling a new career or…
Boston Terrier Nurses Orphaned Kittens, Warms Our Cold Hearts
Shannon Williams’ Boston terrier, Memory, used to be afraid of cats. Then Memory became a surrogate mom to a klatch of orphaned kittens whom she reportedly began to nurse, despite…
Robert Allenby Stands By His Story, Says Truth Will Come Out
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Robert Allenby is standing by his story of a beating and robbery in Hawaii, even though he has no memory of a part of that night….
Study Shows Brain Stores Seemingly Trivial Memories, Just in Case
The surge of emotion that makes memories of embarrassment, triumph and disappointment so vivid can also reach back in time, strengthening recall of seemingly mundane things that happened just beforehand…
Tour A Century Of Sci-Fi Film In Just Four Minutes
I just watched over a hundred years of sci-fi crunched into four minutes. And beyond a fun trip down memory lane, I noticed a few things. The effects have radically…
Why It’s Easier To Remember Emotional Events
When we experience a highly emotional time in our lives — such as a wedding or break-up, childbirth or even major historical events like 9/11 — we tend to remember…