Just want to give props to Radio Lab who recently did a great show on memory, and human control of the brain mechanisms that control making and recalling memories. Among the secrets they uncover, it turns out that the more you recall something - an event, a face, a story - the less real it becomes! Like tellers of tall tales, the brain constantly recreates events as they are remembered, adding and subtracting details randomly. Could you imagine if computers were that faulty?

Anyway, listen to the story here.

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