
Astronomy, Animals and Radio Waves
Dr Karl Podcast
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How to Forget Things and Remember Things
A paper published in the Journal of Science Advances called a multi-year tropical Pacific cooling response to recent Australian wildfires. Memory is not like a DVD, if you can remember what a DVD is, where you have patterns burnt into the glass,. but rather memory is like a memory stick, where you can refresh the memory. Each time you access the memory, you actually put it back and you can change it. You can put a false memory into one quarter of people and the experiment was done at Disneyland. In general, what happens in most of our societies around the world is that the kids have no memory before the age of six. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be nice to them
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