Why can't I remember my own birth?
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Perhaps we actually can... Also in this week's column:â¦
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have previously been.
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Discover how the leap year came into being, and why those unfortunate people born between born September 3 to 13 had no birthday in 1752.
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I plead guilty to past transgressions. So, call me a hypocrite if you will. I don't care anymore. I refuse to get stuck in the past because the present and the near future is fun. Indulge if you will in recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images experienced as intrusive and distressing. The obsession with Microsoft in Open Software communities is excessive and unreasonable and a product of the mind. My only hope is that such thoughts, impulses, and, or images can be expunged by logic or reasoning, which is contrary to the notions in the psychiatric community.
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I guess I'm the bad boy of heart attack survivors. Mine played like low comedy from the start. It felt not like shearing pain; I had no revelations of mortality and sense of endtimes and lost opportunities. Actually, it seemed Bill Clinton was sitting on my chest playing the saxophone.
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Personal identity has taken on a new  meaning in the digital age, where basic facts like your name,  address or age are far less important to some people than the  collected records of what you were looking at online.
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Millions of boomers are caring for parents afflicted with a disease that steals minds and memories. What life is like when your mother doesn't know you, or her own name.
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How many people have gotten home after a blindingly stressful day and realize they&#39;ve forgotten some important event or errand?
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I have a faint memory from elementary school of stuffing coins into slots in a piece of cardboard decorated with the likeness of a Revolutionary War soldier. I was saving to buy a $25 U.S. bond, but since I don't remember actually owning a bond, I'm guessing my nickels, dimes and quarters didn't ...
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Don't you just hate it when you can almost remember something, but then it slips away? And then it nags at you until you get it settled? Well, we're here to create that experience for you.   Here's a quote from a movie that was popular sometime in the past 100 years.
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In Iraq, a birth worth blogging about.
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Technology meets ethics Academics, writers, biographers and computer scientists came together in London today to discuss how and whether technology can and should be used to supplement and augment human memory. The stage for the meeting: the British Library, where the University of Southampton is hosting the Memories for Life Colloquium.â¦
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I know I used to have an account here, but like so many things I have no idea what it is. &nbsp;Damn brain sugery... Being awake for brain sugery is interesting but not fun. &nbsp;Actually I'd describe it as terrifing. &nbsp;But I'm getting ahead of myself. &nbsp;On my first Thanksgiving away from home I had three episodes of numbness on my right side that lasted about five minutes and were spaced about half an hour appart. &nbsp;I thougt nothing of it until a week later when it happend agian. &nbsp;Went to school clinic, they sent me to get a CT scan. &nbsp;Later that afternoon they wanted me to go for an MRI first thing in the morning, so I did and the tech seemed concerned. &nbsp;Later that evening I went to happy hour as I often do Friday nights with my freinds. &nbsp;Before I got a quarter into my first beer I got a call from the clinic telling me to come in as soon as possible. &nbsp;So much for beer...
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I asked for advice in reducing vitriol on this blog, and a couple of readers helpfully identified a source of the problem: me. They and many others didnât like my suggestion to require commenters to use their real name. Tartuffo wrote: âAs someone who has been on the Internet since 1981, from alt.flame to the [...].
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In IT, it helps to have a long memory. That's not just because occasionally someone needs to remember how to code COBOL. It's because companies not only want you to remember their triumphs, they also want you to forget their mistakes as quickly as possible.
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Health dept does u-turn The Information Commissioner has been told that patients will have the opportunity to refuse to have their details uploaded onto the new NHS medical records system. The news comes just weeks after the Department of Health refused patients that right.â¦
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For the first month or so after my heart attack (at age 38, no family history, no obvious risk factors apart from being a man), I left the light on at night and cried myself to sleep. Having been startled by my own mortality -- the inevitability of it, the unfairness of it -- I was certain I was ...