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FUNCTION OF MEMORY. “Memory is the glue that binds our mental lives. Without it, we’d be prisoners of the present, unable to use the lessons of the past to change our future.” https://lnkd.in/dU7QXHe View in LinkedIn

TED TALK. “A Memory Without Limits: Prof. Giuliana Mazzoni at TEDxHull.” https://lnkd.in/dKUjM2s View in LinkedIn

UNLIMITED. “Hack your brain to remember almost anything.” https://lnkd.in/dE2v5a4 View in LinkedIn

ENHANCED THOUGHTS. "For nearly all of human history, only the five natural senses were known to serve as a way into the brain, and language and gesture as the channels out. Now researchers are breaching those boundaries of the mind, moving information in and out and across space and time, manipulating it and potentially enhancing it." http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-brain-brain-communication-no-longer-unthinkable-180954948/ View in LinkedIn

MALLEABLE FEAR. “We can cause an animal to have fear and then not have fear and then to have fear again by stimulating the nerves at frequencies that strengthen or weaken the synapses.” http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/how_to_erase_a_memory_and_restore_it View in LinkedIn

MALLEABLE MEMORIES. “Roberto Malinow, professor of neurosciences, said: ‘We can form a memory, erase that memory and we can reactivate it, at will, by applying a stimulus that selectively strengthens or weakens synaptic connections.” https://lnkd.in/dubvDXy View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends focused on plant-pollinator interactions. The massive contributions to this field of genetic analyses were not available when Darwin first probed these relationships. And the data continues to pour in today. It is a beautiful case study of where two species, or more, evolve in parallel by co-evolution, the one affecting the other. View in LinkedIn