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fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

Preamble to the West

"It's natural to want to lie when you look in the mirror, see you are naked down to the crimes. Let me tell you, honey, truth is the harmony your song has been missing."
Portland
Film
fromColossal
6 days ago

In 'Slow Light,' Past and Present Merge in the Uncanny, Animated Life of a Unique Protagonist

A man perceives the past in real time due to the unusual density of his eyeballs, affecting his present experience.
LGBT
fromDocumentjournal
6 days ago

The spiral stories of David Wojnarowicz in 'Memories that Smell like Gasoline'

Wojnarowicz's work intricately intertwines queer consciousness with evocative memories, reshaping narrative prose and exploring the interplay of individual and societal experiences.
#art-exhibition
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
1 week ago

Taste the music, hear the story: Welcome to multisensory entertainment - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

That's what these newer events do best. They draw you in with sound, light, movement, even scent. You're part of it, and regular nights out don't feel the same.
Music
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Technology Can Lead to Worsening Brain Function

People rely more on large language models (LLMs) as information sources for academics, medical advice, and writing assistance, altering societal norms and practices.
Digital life
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
1 week ago

Wild Sports

The body remembers what the mind forgets. What moves us is not the muscle, but the myth. There’s a tension that lives between surfaces, not quite sweat, not quite skin, but something older, deeper.
Photography
#family
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Are We Overthinking Ourselves?

Memories are reconstructed rather than recorded, often shaped through reflection. Small events can powerfully influence identity.
fromMetro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
1 week ago

Revisiting Carl Hirano's Wall of Fame in San Jose's Japantown

"Generations of Ginza-goers will be disoriented, but the San Jose restaurant at 215 E. Jackson St. is now called Kaita," wrote the Merc. "Six months ago, Koji Sugimoto bought the closet-size Japantown landmark, ripped out its worn walls, and installed new blue carpeting and comfortable benches."
San Francisco
#aging
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Writer Who Embraces Forgetting

Authors of memoirs must focus on remembering and telling the truth despite gaps in memory.
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

LLMs: How to Build AI Superintelligence? [Hint: Storage] | HackerNoon

The brain processes and stores information through clusters of neurons using electrical and chemical signals.
fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 weeks ago

Artist Spotlight: Nina Molloy

Nina Molloy creates art exploring memory and transformation through her Thai and British heritage.
Artificial intelligence
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 weeks ago

dustin yellin builds stratified glass sculptures for almine rech's tribeca gallery

Dustin Yellin's exhibition features layered glass sculptures that explore themes of memory and cultural convergence.
'The Consequential Nature of the Simultaneous' serves as both sculpture and spatial proposition, bridging modern science and ancient ritual.
#music
fromPortland Mercury
3 weeks ago
London music

Mercury Music Picks: Doc Snock's Final Album, Free Music Events, and So Much More!

New music from cherished deceased artists revives memories and identity.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago
Music

Can a Playlist Save Your Mood? Neuroscience Says Yes

Music profoundly influences emotions and memories, proving effective for mood regulation.
#nostalgia
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Memory gets a boost from positive emotion

Objects are more memorable when people encounter them while feeling positive emotions than while feeling negative ones.
Science
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

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

The anniversary of the 7/7 terrorist bombings reminds Londoners of the tragedy and the city's resilience in moving forward while remembering.
#neuroscience
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago
Science

How the Binding of Two Brain Molecules Creates Memories That Last a Lifetime

fromNews Center
1 month ago
Science

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.
fromScienceDaily
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Energy and memory: A new neural network paradigm

Associative memory plays a crucial role in human cognition, allowing retrieval of complete patterns from minimal information.
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago
Science

How the Binding of Two Brain Molecules Creates Memories That Last a Lifetime

Science
fromNews Center
1 month 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.
#art
fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Juxtapoz Magazine - Henry Glavin "Lock" @ Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton

fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Juxtapoz Magazine - Henry Glavin "Lock" @ Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton

fromScary Mommy
3 weeks 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
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

We Come by Hoarding Naturally

Long before our population began stockpiling an almost unimaginable array of items, animals evolved similar behaviors, though possibly for different reasons.
Science
Philosophy
fromAeon
3 weeks ago

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

Flushing villagers commemorate the deceased with personalized street-side wireframe lights, preserving memory and reinforcing community bonds.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Autocorrect by Etgar Keret review endlessly inventive short stories

People are not very good at remembering things the way they really happened. If an experience is an article of clothing, then memory is the garment after it's been washed, not according to the instructions, over and over again: the colours fade, the size shrinks, the original, nostalgic scent has long since become the artificial orchid smell of fabric softener.
Books
#grief
fromThe New Yorker
4 weeks ago

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

Mavis Gallant's 'Voices Lost in Snow' reshapes narrative conventions, emphasizing memory and perception over traditional storytelling.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Notes from a nursing home: We don't speak of sadness here'

I sit in my room in this nursing home near Sydney, a box of four walls that holds all I now call my own. Two suitcases could carry it.
Mental health
fromtime.com
1 month ago

The Dead Have Never Been This Talkative': The Rise of AI Resurrection

AI technology evokes powerful emotions by allowing users to reanimate lost loved ones' images, impacting memory and grief dynamics.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Hippocampus, Learning, Brain Injury, and Rehabilitation

Lashley's experiments revealed that memory is distributed across the brain, not localized to specific areas.
Film
fromtime.com
1 month ago

In A Photographic Memory, a Daughter Pieces Together the Mother She Never Knew

Rachel Seed uncovers her late mother's legacy, which includes a wealth of photographs and journal entries, allowing her to rediscover her mother's life.
#travel
fromBOOOOOOOM!
1 month ago

Artist Spotlight: Reeha Lim

The body appears in my work as fragmented and in flux-gestures caught mid-transition, toes curled, hands hovering. These are bodies that do not settle into place.
Arts
Mindfulness
fromNature
1 month ago

Eureka! The brain science behind lightbulb moments

Cognitive neuroscience research seeks to understand the brain's mechanisms behind moments of insight.
Film
fromRoger Ebert
1 month ago

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

The film depicts dementia not as a tragedy but as a journey of self-discovery through heightened senses.
fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Daniela Garcia Hamilton "Amanecer / Atardecer" @ Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles

Hamilton's work beautifully embodies the weight of absence through a combination of embroidery and oil painting, capturing the essence of lost memories and cultural assimilation.
Arts
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

"South Carolinian American Sonnet for Independence Day"

The comfort in the smell of bacon in the morning is mostly burning fat & salt, but the taste is sweet as the part of the pig that stores the soul.
LA food
fromIndependent
1 month ago

'Tomboy, profiterole baker, lover of musicals, we all miss her voice at end of the phone' - family of Elaine O'Hara share the eulogy the public never heard

Elaine O'Hara, a warm and vivid woman, is remembered for embracing life's challenges with joy, from being a tomboy to a rugby enthusiast.
Everyday cooking
fromWIRED
1 month 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
Women
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

When I think about the burglar menacing my mother, the memories are slippery. She wasn't chirping. She was screaming

The contrast between childhood innocence and traumatic reality profoundly impacts memory.
fromFuncheap
1 month 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
#fathers-day
#hippocampus
Arts
fromArchDaily
1 month 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.
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

Take Care

The poem reflects on personal loss, memory, and the ways we honor those we've lost through remembrance and careful curation of the past.
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

Howardena Pindell Is Still Breaking Down Barriers for Black Artists

Pindell's early encounter with a Fayum portrait marked a profound moment of recognition for her, connecting her identity with an ancient past that transcends time.
Boston food
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.
fromwww.newsshopper.co.uk
1 month ago

Woman's tribute to 'real gentleman' grandad killed in Beckenham 'hit-and-run'

He will be sorely missed by all his family and friends; he was a proud, strong Irishman with a quick wit, the most charming smile and was a true gentleman.
London politics
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

People were repressed into silence': the Spanish artist creating a visual memory of fascism's horrors

Paco Roca's exhibition explores memory and identity through an artistic journey, using cartographical themes to reflect the emotional depth of his comics.
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
#identity
fromVulture
1 month ago
Relationships

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.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago
Mindfulness

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.
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.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 months 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.
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.
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
2 months ago

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

Gremolata is a versatile condiment that symbolizes friendship and culinary creativity.
Leftover cooking can preserve memories of loved ones.
fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 months ago

"The Moon Underwater" by Madeleine Tonzi

Madeleine Tonzi's latest show explores memory and place through a refined visual language.
Privacy technologies
fromPsychology Today
2 months 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.
Arsenal
fromIndependent
2 months 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.
fromNature
2 months ago

A walk down memory lane and other stirring stories: Books in brief

Molecular biologists examine memory through neurotransmitters such as dopamine; neuroscientists through groups of cells working in concert; and psychologists through organismal activity as a whole.
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months 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
2 months ago

What to Say When You Forget Someone's Name

Remembering names is challenging due to distractions during introductions; experts suggest direct communication to address forgetfulness.
fromPsychology Today
2 months 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
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months 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
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

'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.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Mechanics of Deja Vu

Déjà vu might not be maladaptive; it may signal efficient memory retrieval, prioritizing swift recognition over perfect accuracy to enhance survival.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Can Television Shows Help Us Process Trauma?

Television can be a source of comfort and understanding for those dealing with trauma, as seen in 'Lost' and 'Severance'.
Berlin music
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 months ago

In the Bavarian Alps, Waltzing My Way Into Family History

The waltz at Schloss Elmau serves as a bridge connecting personal history and dance, deepening the experience through physical connection.
fromArchitectural Digest
2 months 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
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

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

The Palestinians were telling the world: just three years after the catastrophe that befell on the Jewish people in Europe, a new catastrophe—very different, but no less painful—is unfolding in our homeland, Palestine.
NYC parents
Digital life
fromSocial Media Explorer
2 months 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.
NYC parents
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

Op-Ed | Echoes of a father's pain | amNewYork

The exhibition emphasizes the importance of memory and the personal stories of those affected by historical trauma.
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