Memory

Sleep May Enhance Memories

ABC News | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living


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...

Sex And The Memory of Sexual Experience

Suzie Heumann | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living


Suzie Heumann

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.

Bob Dylan's Secrets of Anti-Aging

Dr. Andrew Lange | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living


Dr. Andrew Lange

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.

Andy Rooney On Sleep

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living


Dr. Michael J. Breus

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.

Autistic Artist Draws Manhattan Skyline From Memory

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...

How The City Hurts Your Brain And What You Can Do About It

Linda Buzzell | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living


Linda Buzzell

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

The Ravages Of Time

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living


Stephanie Gertler

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.

The Secret of Conspiracy

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media


Michael Kaplan

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.

Studies Show Facebook Improves Intelligence, Tweeting Weakens Memory

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...

As It Should Be: Moving On From 9/11

Mike Doyle | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago


Mike Doyle

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.

North Country Blues: Michael Jackson, Media, Community, and a Small Town Murder

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living


Georgianne Nienaber

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.

Michael as Memory

Farai Chideya | Posted 08.03.2009 | Entertainment


Farai Chideya

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.

Five Ways to Increase Your Brain Power

Sondra Kornblatt | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living


Sondra Kornblatt

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.

Embrace a Milestone Moment - In My Case, No More Editing

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.08.2009 | Living


Gretchen Rubin

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...

Susan Boyle Placed Rather Than Won: Hollie Steel Cried Her Way into the Finals

Michael Russnow | Posted 06.30.2009 | Entertainment


Michael Russnow

it seems to me Susan's negative press in the tabloids and CNN, plus tweets on Twitter may have worked against her.

Susan Boyle Made it to the Finals But Wasn't Great in the Semis: A Case of Nerves and the Wrong Song Choice

Michael Russnow | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment


Michael Russnow

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.

The Chain of Memory

Jane Minogue | Posted 06.24.2009 | Living


Jane Minogue

"Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind." -- Guillaume Apollinaire Perhaps one way to liberate the image of chronological age from ...

Guns, Germs, and Squeals

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living


Joseph LeDoux

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.

How does your brain work?

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living


Joseph LeDoux

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...

We Are Our Memories

Lionel | Posted 05.08.2009 | Living


Lionel

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.

iForget: How the iPhone Killed Memory

Matt Stewart | Posted 04.04.2009 | Style


Matt Stewart

The iPhone is a gorgeous, near-perfect device that reads minds and moves planets. It's also destroying the traditional concept of memory.

8 Ways To Maximize Your 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...

A Spotless Mind: Would You Take A Memory-Erasing Pill?

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...

"Million Problem Password"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 03.14.2009 | Style


Jerry Zezima

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.

Al Meyerhoff and the Chemistry of Life and Death

Diane Dulken | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green


Diane Dulken

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.