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I keep the holiday cards my friends and loved ones send. I'll put them in an album in the future to gift them back their ...

Our memories make us who we are—just ask Barbra Streisand. But despite the lyrics in many popular songs, memories aren’t frozen in time. When we call them up, the details shift and change. And ...

Boston University professor and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez promoted his new book, which dives into his experiences with grief after the death of his research partner and explores the science of ...

Would you like to live forever? It sounds utterly exhausting – and so I’ll pass, thank you, Professor Rowlands. Yet to some hopeful readers the subtitle of this short book on memory – ‘Or, How To Live ...

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...

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Stephen Curry's book, released this week, ranks among Amazon's top 10 current best-sellers and atop its sports book charts. Tim Reynolds | Associated Press Stephen Curry: ‘I think I’m just going ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Grab a Coca-Cola, your favorite Pop-Tart, and settle in for a guided tour of an astonishing family journey as told by the daughter in the Long family. Amanda ...

Forgetting is normal, but it can make life difficult. You might forget someone’s name seconds after you meet them, blank on where you’ve put your keys, or miss an important birthday. Memories are ...

Museums are strange things, Jack Ashby, assistant director of the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK, points out in his new book, Nature’s Memory: Behind the scenes at the world’s natural ...

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