Seeing?
The accepted dogma was that once captured and stored, memories could be retrieved but not rewritten. Kinda like a read-only file on your computer. Apparently, that’s not the case.
Declared Daniela Schiller, a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, who researches memory:
Each time you retrieve a memory it undergoes this storage process. That means the memory is in an unstable state, rewritten and remodeled every time it is retrieved. And we don’t
Cleaning!
You hate cleaning? Well, now you have a scientific reason to do so.
So says a bunch of researchers in a broad international coalition. They proclaimed this cheerful finding in “Cleaning at Home and at Work in Relation to Lung Function Decline and Airway Obstruction,” published recently in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
It is known that cleaning tasks may imply exposure to chemical agents with
Fruit?
If you can tell an apple from a mango, you may be better off than 40% of the citizens of ye olde United Kingdom. A recent poll of 2,000 adults commissioned by Yeo Valley, a family-owned dairy and yogurt-producing enterprise in that fair land of HM QRII showed that a sizable chunk of those good folks could not tell the difference.
The study tested the knowledge of subjects about both common and non-so-common fruit.
70% apparently couldn’t tell the difference between
Peace?
Dovey the Shar Pei, belonging to Scott Rogers and his wife, of Edmond, Oklahoma, was pretty peaceful. She found peace. Not only was the canine cute and cuddly, she was peaceful.
It was only when certain household items began to go missing during the past few months did the Rogers family understand the secret of Dovey’s placidity.
Said Scott:
We have a 6-month-old baby and, you know, we have binkies in the house because of the baby and over the past five months, we’ve
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.