Fellow ScienceBlogger and SAT-Challenge co-investigator Chad Orzel has been awarded tenure at Union College. Why not head over there and offer him congratulations? Let's see if we can make his the biggest ScienceBlogs discussion thread ever!
Now get to work updating that bio, Chad!
In other news:
- Fascinating fMRI study demonstrating that people who were closer to ground zero on 9/11 have different memories. More on "flashbulb memories" here. Key difference: physical proximity to the actual events.
- How to keep memory and mental function working as you age.
- The Neurocritic wonders if making science flashy really increases its appeal.
- The key to turning academic promise into real achievement? Hard work.
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I was living in Manhattan on 9/11. I can vividly recall the horrifying details of the day. I can still smell the acrid odor of burnt plastic and the pall of oily smoke and the feeling of disbelief, the sense that history had just pivoted in a tragic direction.
September 11. The Challenger disaster. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. If we were over the age of 10 when these events occurred, we all remember them vividly: where we were when we heard the news, the weather that day, how we felt.
To enhance any system, one first needs to identify its capacity-limiting factor(s).
Think, for a moment, about one of your cherished childhood memories, one of those sepia-tinged recollections that you've repeated countless times. I've got some bad news: big chunks of that memory are almost certainly not true.
Congratulations to Chad! =)