Monday, July 28
In The NEWS
What is memory?
Memory is how the brain takes information captured by our senses and turns it into experiences that can be stored and remembered in the future.
Instead of a perfect recording system, the brain selects a subset of sensory data for processing in short-term memory before storing it in long-term memory for future recall. This means remembering creates incomplete reconstructions of knowledge.
Remembering a long-term memory requires a retrieval cue—a stimulus for a neuron within the memory's engram. Once triggered, neurons in the network activate, and the stored sensory details reconstruct the experience in short-term memory.
... Read our full explainer on memory here.
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>The doorway effect is when people forget their task in a new space. (More)
> Core memories are a popularized version of autobiographical memories. (More)
> Photographic memory isn’t real, but other rare memory types do exist. (More)
The origins of pro wrestling
Professional wrestling is a story-driven form of wrestling that entertains audiences through precise techniques, demanding athleticism, and theatrical melodrama.
Professional wrestling matches are scripted, or, to use the industry’s term, “worked.” Despite that fact, performers are expected to maintain the illusion of the fictional narrative—or “kayfabe”—by remaining in character. (View a guide to the language of professional wrestling here.)
It’s common knowledge that professional wrestling is scripted, yet wrestling fans keep watching. Similar to people who attend the opera, they suspend their disbelief to enjoy the performances.
... Read our full overview on pro wrestling here.
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> An oral history of the inaugural WrestleMania. (More)
> Why one French philosopher loved pro wrestling. (More)
> How meta-narratives drive pro wrestling. (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Who's in Charge
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My wife worked in banking, so she writes all the checks, pays all the bills, manages the flow of money in and out of the bank, and balances the check book. She volunteered to do this.
When we go to buy a house or a car or take a vacation, she volunteers to do all the research however, she demands that I review her research and that we make all those decisions together.
She takes care of inside the house, I take care of outside the house, and whenever we go somewhere together, I drive the car. I the trip is over four hours; she drives for an hour to give me a break.
When we retired, she said she was no longer cooking meals for us, that we would both cook meals for ourselves which we have done for the last ten years, except for Thanksgiving Dinner.
She buys all my clothes because she says that my color matches are all wrong. I try on no clothes in the store. We or she brings everything home and if it does not fit or look right, she returns it and gets a larger size or finds something else.
We do all grocery shopping together except in rare situations, when one of us is out and we need something and send out a text.
Some call this a FEMALE LED MARRIAGE, some may think that my wife is in charge, and I am the submissive in the relationship, but I do not feel like that, and she does not feel like she is in charge. Our arrangement works for us and that is all that matters.
Scientists Discovered a New Human Species That Defies Conventional Wisdom
Although only one species of hominin (a tribe of the subfamily Homininae) exists on the planet today—good ole Homo sapiens—the human family, throughout more geologically-recent Earth history, was comprised of a complex tableaux of members. And over the years, scientists have tried to get a clearer picture of that prehistoric story by excavating ancient human sites around the world.
Now, anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Hawai’i are illustrating a previously unknown—or, rather, uncategorized—chapter of that story with the introduction of a new human species, H. juluensis. The researchers published the details of this new species in the journals Nature Communications and PaleoAnthropology.
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