Exploring Brain Waves and Memory Processes

Today, you’ll learn about a new plan to use waste from beer brewing to clean metal out of our water supply, a study that puts languages like Orc and Klingon to the test, and a discovery about the direction our memories travel in our brains.  

Brewer’s Yeast  

• “The same beer waste that gives us Vegemite could help us recycle metal waste.” n.a. 2024.  
• “Spent brewer’s yeast as a selective biosorbent for metal recovery from polymetallic waste streams.” by Anna Sieber, et al. 2024.  
• “What Is E-Waste Recycling and How Is it Done?” by Tin Lok Wu. 2023.  

Constructed Languages  

• “From Star Trek’s Klingon to Tolkien’s Orkish: Unraveling the auditory aesthetics of constructed languages.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.  
• “Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics.” by Christine Mooshammer, et al. 2024.  

Memory Direction 

• “Brain Waves Travel in One Direction When Memories Are Made and the Opposite When Recalled.” by Grant Currin. 2024.  
• “Theta and Alpha Oscillations Are Traveling Waves in the Human Neocortex.” by Honghui Zhang, et al. 2018. 
• “The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing.” by Uma R. Mohan, et al. 2024.  

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