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Writing
fromTruthout
1 month ago

The Genocide in Gaza Isn't Just Attacking Our Bodies, It's Erasing Our Memories

War destroys not only lives but also memories, stripping individuals of the connections that define them.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

What Remains When Memory Fades

Memory loss does not erase the self; love and imagination remain.
Psychedelics suggest consciousness can exist without autobiographical memory.
Identity consists of relational patterns, not solely stored memories.
Connection preserves dignity, emphasizing the importance of presence.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien review a dazzling fable of migration

The Sea embodies a complex interplay of memory, identity, and the immigrant experience in Madeleine Thien's novel.
Relationships
fromVulture
1 month ago

Susan Choi Is Still Outlandishly Talented

Susan Choi's novel 'Flashlight' masterfully explores memory's unreliability through the lens of a haunting disappearance and its impact on identity.
Writing
fromTruthout
1 month ago

The Genocide in Gaza Isn't Just Attacking Our Bodies, It's Erasing Our Memories

War destroys not only lives but also memories, stripping individuals of the connections that define them.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

What Remains When Memory Fades

Memory loss does not erase the self; love and imagination remain.
Psychedelics suggest consciousness can exist without autobiographical memory.
Identity consists of relational patterns, not solely stored memories.
Connection preserves dignity, emphasizing the importance of presence.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien review a dazzling fable of migration

The Sea embodies a complex interplay of memory, identity, and the immigrant experience in Madeleine Thien's novel.
Relationships
fromVulture
1 month ago

Susan Choi Is Still Outlandishly Talented

Susan Choi's novel 'Flashlight' masterfully explores memory's unreliability through the lens of a haunting disappearance and its impact on identity.
#cognition
#relationships
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

These words of defiant unity followed the horror of the 7/7 bombings. Imagine what we would hear today instead | Hugh Muir

The moment the 7/7 terrorist bombs exploded in King's Cross station marked a profound silence, contrasting sharply with the chaos of a city that must continue to move.
London politics
#neuroscience
Science
fromNews Center
3 weeks ago

Developing New Methods to Map Brain-Wide Synaptic Changes - News Center

New method DELTA tracks synaptic proteins across the brain, revealing insights into synaptic plasticity and its role in learning and memory.
Science
fromNews Center
3 weeks ago

Developing New Methods to Map Brain-Wide Synaptic Changes - News Center

New method DELTA tracks synaptic proteins across the brain, revealing insights into synaptic plasticity and its role in learning and memory.
fromScary Mommy
6 days ago

The Strange Mercy & Science Behind The Things We Forget In Motherhood

Motherhood is often described as a balancing act - juggling schedules, ambitions, emotional labor, marital needs. But nearly seven years into marriage and four kids later, I've come to believe that motherhood isn't simply about balance. It's about memory. It's about navigating the relentless, complicated push and pull between remembering and forgetting.
Parenting
#cognitive-skills
Digital life
fromSocial Media Explorer
1 month ago

Sam Sammane on Digital Amnesia and the Decline of Human Memory - Social Media Explorer

Digital amnesia is diminishing our memory and presence as technology automates tasks that once required active recall.
Digital life
fromSocial Media Explorer
1 month ago

Sam Sammane on Digital Amnesia and the Decline of Human Memory - Social Media Explorer

Digital amnesia is diminishing our memory and presence as technology automates tasks that once required active recall.
fromAeon
6 days ago

Memories of friends and neighbours light the streets of a seaside village in England | Aeon Videos

The village of Flushing in Cornwall, with its fishing heritage and close-knit community, celebrates memories through street-side wireframe lights honoring those who have passed. Each light symbolizes individual stories, reflecting the unique connections among villagers.
philosophy
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
6 days ago

artists turn ecological grief into memory for 'memo. remembering the futures' exhibition

The exhibition 'Memo. Remembering the Futures' features 15 interdisciplinary projects that use memory to address ecological loss and envision sustainable futures.
Artificial intelligence
#surrealism
#grief
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Relationships

I've kept these dead, dusty flowers from my grandmother for nearly a decade. I should have thrown them out years ago, but can't.

fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Relationships

I've kept these dead, dusty flowers from my grandmother for nearly a decade. I should have thrown them out years ago, but can't.

fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Jhumpa Lahiri on Mavis Gallant's "Voices Lost in Snow"

Mavis Gallant's story 'Voices Lost in Snow' exemplifies a seamless blend of life and art, offering a unique narrative style that reshapes perspective.
Books
#aging
fromRoger Ebert
2 weeks ago
Film

Desire Never Goes Away: Sarah Friedland and Kathleen Chalfant on "Familiar Touch" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

fromRoger Ebert
2 weeks ago
Film

Desire Never Goes Away: Sarah Friedland and Kathleen Chalfant on "Familiar Touch" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

#psychology
Privacy technologies
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How Memory Helps Us Resist Misinformation

Resistance to misinformation fades unless people retain how to spot manipulation over time.
Text and video-based interventions boost memory and offer longer-lasting protection than games.
Memory, not just motivation, is the key to building durable defenses against false information.
Privacy technologies
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How Memory Helps Us Resist Misinformation

Resistance to misinformation fades unless people retain how to spot manipulation over time.
Text and video-based interventions boost memory and offer longer-lasting protection than games.
Memory, not just motivation, is the key to building durable defenses against false information.
fromCN Traveller
1 week ago

Travel more, live longer: Paul Theroux on how travel buys us more time

You may live in a place for months, even years, and it does not touch you, but a weekend or a night in another, and you feel as if your whole being has been sprayed with the equivalent of a cosmic wind.
Travel
#research
OMG science
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Tracking precisely how learning, memories are formed - Harvard Gazette

A new technique to map the molecular basis of memory formation could lead to therapies for disorders like dementia.
OMG science
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Tracking precisely how learning, memories are formed - Harvard Gazette

A new technique to map the molecular basis of memory formation could lead to therapies for disorders like dementia.
#family
Retirement
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

When they chose to die together, my grandparents wrote the final chapter of a love story spanning 70 years

Ron and Irene fulfilled their final wish to die peacefully together after a lifetime of love and adventure.
Arsenal
fromIndependent
1 month ago

Champions League glory with Katie McCabe was bittersweet for my family - but it has helped us in our grief

The trip to the European final was a heartfelt tribute to Aidan O'Doherty's late daughter Freya, a devoted fan of Arsenal.
Retirement
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

When they chose to die together, my grandparents wrote the final chapter of a love story spanning 70 years

Ron and Irene fulfilled their final wish to die peacefully together after a lifetime of love and adventure.
Arsenal
fromIndependent
1 month ago

Champions League glory with Katie McCabe was bittersweet for my family - but it has helped us in our grief

The trip to the European final was a heartfelt tribute to Aidan O'Doherty's late daughter Freya, a devoted fan of Arsenal.
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

If You're a Sucker For Sticky Notes, the Poppin Sticky Memo Ball Is Art

If writing by hand activates more connections in the brain, it's no wonder I rely on sticky notes in my daily life—my entire organizational system is built around them.
Graphic design
fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago

YBCA's Free "Altar Diorama" Workshop (SF)

Join us at our drop-in art workshop to create a unique altar diorama in memory of a loved one. All ages are welcome and materials will be provided. This workshop draws inspiration from Malaya Tuyay's public art piece, "What is Legacy Without Liberation," encouraging participants to honor their loved ones creatively.
Arts
#architecture
fromArchDaily
1 month ago
UX design

Olfactory Design: Spaces That Awaken Memories

Smell is a vital, often overlooked sense that links our environment with deep emotional responses.
Olfactory design strategically uses scents to influence atmosphere and emotional responses in various spaces.
fromArchDaily
4 weeks ago
Arts

"Before Architecture, There Is Land": In Conversation With Lynn Chamoun, Elias Tamer, Shereen Doummar, and Edouard Souhaid, Curators of the Lebanese Pavilion

The Lebanese Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2025 emphasizes land as memory and resistance amidst Lebanon's ecological crisis.
UX design
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Olfactory Design: Spaces That Awaken Memories

Smell is a vital, often overlooked sense that links our environment with deep emotional responses.
Olfactory design strategically uses scents to influence atmosphere and emotional responses in various spaces.
Arts
fromArchDaily
4 weeks ago

"Before Architecture, There Is Land": In Conversation With Lynn Chamoun, Elias Tamer, Shereen Doummar, and Edouard Souhaid, Curators of the Lebanese Pavilion

The Lebanese Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2025 emphasizes land as memory and resistance amidst Lebanon's ecological crisis.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Twelve Post-War Tales by Graham Swift review haunting visions from a Booker winner

"In Blushes the ghost world we're shown is the suddenly empty one created by the Covid pandemic, with its unpeopled streets and rising death toll."
Travel
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Dyslexia and Curiosity: A Rewarding Connection

Curiosity has long been linked to better memory. When we're curious, our brain's reward systems are engaged, which in turn boosts memory.
Education
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

How to Open a Hole

Siphoned out via bullet holes, like honeybees smoked out their hive, chorus of black lines, burned thick and dark, gilded grill marks, hexagon honey stuck to their eyes, there are six sides to loneliness.
Writing
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Elif Batuman on Vladimir Nabokov's "The Perfect Past"

The 'true purpose of autobiography', Nabokov continues, is 'the following of such thematic designs through one's life.' This reflects a deeper understanding of life’s complexities.
Writing
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Creativity, Interrupted: How to Return to the Work

Cleaning the attic revealed unfinished projects and stirred emotions, highlighting the challenges and joys of the creative process.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Rachel Roddy's recipe for spaghetti with prawns, courgettes and gremolata | A kitchen in Rome

Gremolata, a versatile mix of parsley, garlic, and lemon zest, enhances dishes with its heat-activated flavors and serves as a reminder of friendship and culinary creativity.
Everyday cooking
Arts
fromBOOOOOOOM!
1 month ago

"The Moon Underwater" by Madeleine Tonzi

Madeleine Tonzi's latest show explores memory and place through a refined visual language.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Nightingale by Laura Elvery review Florence Nightingale inspires a luminous historical novel

Knowing she would narrate it later back in the house, Florence would have to tell the story a different way. That instinct to reshape the unbearable into something legible sits at the core of Nightingale.
London politics
fromtime.com
1 month ago

What to Say When You Forget Someone's Name

Have you ever been in a scenario where you kindly asked someone to repeat their name, and the response you got back was no, they already said it once?
Humor
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Secret to Being a Memory Collector

Meserve’s characters discovered that the emotional intensity of their past hidden memories could be revisited, revealing insights crucial for understanding their lives today.
Mindfulness
fromIndieWire
1 month ago
Relationships

'The Last of Us' Review: Episode 6 Flashes Back to Connect the Dots (and Heal Our Hearts) - Spoilers

Episode 6 of 'The Last of Us' explores themes of memory and pain through Ellie's struggles with her past.
#nostalgia
NYC music
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

"What Happened to New York"

The narrator reflects on memories and connections, using vivid imagery and personal anecdotes to convey a sense of nostalgia and loss.
NYC music
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

"What Happened to New York"

The narrator reflects on memories and connections, using vivid imagery and personal anecdotes to convey a sense of nostalgia and loss.
fromConde Nast Traveler
1 month ago

In the Bavarian Alps, Waltzing My Way Into Family History

I want to be twirled, so we do as Erik says. We are in a ballroom in a recently refurbished castle in the Bavarian Alps, learning how to waltz.
Berlin music
fromArchitectural Digest
1 month ago

How Perfumers Evoke Interiors in Their Scents

Scent is one of the most powerful ways to immortalize a moment in time, many thanks to the olfactory system's direct line to the amygdala and hippocampus.
Paris food
NYC parents
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Seventy-seven years after the Nakba, we are naming our new ruin

The Nakba, a tragedy for Palestinians since 1948, evolves into a new phase characterized by visible suffering and violence, necessitating new language to describe it.
#historical-reflection
Mindfulness
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

A Different Way to Think About Medicine's Most Stubborn Enigma

Dementia involves complex social and familial dynamics, with memory being a crucial aspect beyond mere recollection.
Germany news
fromThe Local Germany
1 month ago

German Holocaust survivor and witness-bearer Margot Friedlaender dies at 103

Margot Friedlaender, a prominent Holocaust survivor and advocate for memory and reconciliation, passed away at 103, leaving a lasting legacy.
Arts
fromTheartnewspaper
2 months ago

The secrets are out at Nada New York

The NADA New York fair showcases art that explores cryptic figuration, memory, and the relationship between nature and constructed reality.
Video games
fromInverse
2 months ago

One Of 2025's Best Games Is Only Seemingly About Soccer

Despelote intertwines soccer and memory, offering an emotional exploration of childhood and identity set against the backdrop of Ecuador's World Cup history.
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