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We often think of memory in a nostalgic or trivial way - such as knowing the capital of the United States or being able to find our car keys - and as somethng relating simply to the past. Yet the reason our brains have remarkabley powerful capacities for memories is that memory is actually for [...]

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge…..That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it…. “You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is [...]

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