Cuomo’s Nursing Home Scandal Also Killed Priceless Cultural Memories
Cultural memory stays alive best through those with the longest memories. If we let them offer it, we gain a sense of stability, history, and of our place in time and space.
Left Pushes To Erase High Achievers From University Halls Simply Because They’re White And Male
There’s a recent push within academia to remove pictures of scientists, Nobel Prize winners, deans, and various other accolade recipients from the walls of university halls under the auspices of their insufficient racial and sex differences.
New Typeface Helps You Remember What You Read — By Erasing It
A new study suggests that when our brain works harder to read or write something, the better we recall the information. Enter Sans Forgetica!
It’s Well-Established In Psychological Research That Memories Are Unreliable
In her seminal article, researcher Elizabeth Loftus warned against trusting therapists due to their bias towards assuming the reality of reconstructed memories.
Science Shows People Regularly Remember Things That Didn’t Happen
In 2015, the National Academy of Sciences released a report summarizing decades of rigorous evidence demonstrating that people regularly ‘recall things we never experienced.’
Ford Argued Trauma Improves Memory, But That’s Not What The Science Says
Yes, a traumatic experience is one you are more likely to remember. But it is also one your mind is more likely to distort.
Podcast: A Scientific Narrative Of Memory, Amnesia, And The Human Brain
Michael Lemonick joins the Federalist Radio Hour to share one woman’s unique story about memory loss and her life in the “perpetual now.”
People Think Socialism Works Because Countries Like China Memory Hole Its Atrocities
Chairman Mao inflicted human suffering in one country equivalent to that of the entirety of World War II. Not that socialism will allow its victims any remembrance.
How Instagram And Celebrities Sell Us Homogenous Lifestyles
Smartphones have given us democratized ‘art,’ which is also marketized to a greater degree than ever before.
Don’t Make Snap Judgments About Shootings Based On Viral Videos
Eyewitnesses are unreliable and biased. Videos don’t tell the whole story. A rush to judgment based on incendiary video snippets hurts our country.
Stanford Students Fight Campus Groupthink
In a startling development, Stanford University students are petitioning to be taught Western civilization once more. If they win, groupthink
Ten Reasons People Still Need Cursive
While some argue cursive writing belongs in the archives and Common Core ushers it out of schools, the evidence shows we need it as much as ever.
The New York Times Forgot To Disclose The Facts About Neil Tyson’s Fabrications
In a piece about the failings of memory, the New York Times curiously forget to disclose the actual facts about Neil Tyson’s history of fabricating quotes.
Meet The Grammar Guardian Behind Britain’s Surprise Bestseller
If you don’t know grammar, you can’t think well, says this Oxford-educated British author and tutor. And he’s here to help.
What Comes After The Pink Police State
Escaping the pink police state requires us to set aside fears that we cannot change and once again speak with each other, face to face.