Sleep May Enhance Memories
For time-starved Americans, few ideas are more appealing than that of learning while sleeping. Why simply doze for eight hours when you can be learnin...
For time-starved Americans, few ideas are more appealing than that of learning while sleeping. Why simply doze for eight hours when you can be learnin...
Suzie Heumann | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
Our memories dictate how we will feel about a similar situation because our brain.body is coded from past experience. Bad experiences with intimacy are codified in your brain/body -- affecting our perception.
Dr. Andrew Lange | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
I have a bumper sticker that says, "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan may look old to you, but he's probably too busy being born to care.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
It would be nice to have a gauge on us to let us know when we need to get some shut eye or when we've had enough, much like a battery light that comes on to tell us it's time to charge a certain device for optimal use.
designboom.com | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
Wiltshire -- diagnosed with autism at the age of three -- displays an unusually powerful photographic memory that he has applied to rendering cityscap...
Linda Buzzell | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
Can city life harm your memory and stunt your ability to control yourself? New research is revealing how urban living can actually harm the human brain
Stephanie Gertler | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
Time colors and shades memories in many ways. So, although I think that I remember clearly the day that my family moved into our "new" apartment on November 1957, I probably don't.
Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media
Just as we want our success to be the result of skill, not luck, we prefer to be the victims of conspiracy rather than chance.
Telegraph | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology
Playing video war games and solving Sudoku may have the same effect as keeping up to date with Facebook, according to Dr Tracy Alloway. But text me...
Mike Doyle | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago
You can hold onto the past only for so long until looking backward becomes fear of moving forward. Sometimes a day should just be a day.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
It seemed as though Jackson chose his own path to death while there are so many others who are literally thrown into the Grim Reaper's grip like carrion to the wolves.
Farai Chideya | Posted 08.03.2009 | Entertainment
When my girl scout troop had a party I brought Stevie Wonder; my friend brought Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, which was everything you needed to know about uncool, and cool.
Sondra Kornblatt | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
Create new connections--big or small--and your brain becomes more active and stays flexible. Even the brains of older people can grow new neurons.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.08.2009 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit...
Michael Russnow | Posted 06.30.2009 | Entertainment
it seems to me Susan's negative press in the tabloids and CNN, plus tweets on Twitter may have worked against her.
Michael Russnow | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment
To win the contest Boyle should revert to a song that shows her greater strengths, one which is in her complete range so that she can demonstrate she deserves to be a musical star.
Jane Minogue | Posted 06.24.2009 | Living
"Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind." -- Guillaume Apollinaire Perhaps one way to liberate the image of chronological age from ...
Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living
I learned what a brain was by digging bullets out of them as a kid in my father's meat market. That was before mad cow disease, when most people thought cow brains were a tasty delight.
Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living
How does your brain work? Why doesn't it work the way you want it to? Can you make it work better (or at least differently)? Are you in charge of y...
Lionel | Posted 05.08.2009 | Living
Friedrich Nietzsche, in the only quote of his most "remember," reminds us: That which does not kill us makes us stronger. But not if you forget what didn't kill you.
Matt Stewart | Posted 04.04.2009 | Style
The iPhone is a gorgeous, near-perfect device that reads minds and moves planets. It's also destroying the traditional concept of memory.
divinecaroline.com | Posted 04.03.2009 | Living
Students (of all ages) might have more on their minds now than ever before--from work, to school, to all of the other distractions pulling at them. So...
dailymail.co.uk | David Derbyshire | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living
A drug which appears to erase painful memories has been developed by scientists. The astonishing treatment could help sufferers of post-traumatic stre...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 03.14.2009 | Style
Yes, it's true: Regis Philbin has no passwords. He has simplified his life the way I and millions of other people wish we could simplify ours, but can't.
Diane Dulken | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
This environmental lawyer reminded us that the vast majority of commercial and industrial chemicals in circulation today are not tested for longterm health effects before being put on the market.
ABC News | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living