Click here to view original web page at people.com Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first-ever photo taken of a black hole — but one woman played an essential role in capturing the image. According to the Washington Post , Katie Bouman, a 29-year-old computer scientist, created the algorithm that made it possible to assemble the […]
Women must be at ‘centre of peacekeeping decision-making’, UN chief tells Security Council
Click here to view original web page at news.un.org Zambian female peacekeepers provide medical support to the local population in Birao, Central African Republic. Women’s rights, voices and participation must be at “the centre of peacekeeping decision-making”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday, describing them as “central to sustainable solutions” […]
Grounding Grief as Memory
Memory changes its character once death claims a person or people with whom a memory was shared. Grieving individuals or families tell stories about the deceased to solidify and reinforce a narrative of the dying or dead person. As someone is dying, or after someone in the family dies, a consensually created memory emerges. Sometimes […]
Framing Memory
No coverage of the subject of legacy and memory can even scratch the surface of the subject without discussion of what memory is. But equally important to understanding how memory works and what its limitations can be, is how you consciously present your memories. It is good to understand that the past has brought us […]
Editing Memory
One of the weirdest things about memory is that every time a person remembers something, that memory is found, reconstituted for recall, and then recalled. A memory may seem like a pristine recollection but is not the original memory, it is a re-collection, a putting back together, of data. Changes to a memory happen. A […]
Dancing and Neuroplasticity
Memories are consolidated through activity that occurs in the hippocampus in the brain. Short term memories are processed into long term memories. Now there is evidence that physical activity such as dancing and endurance training both increase the volume of the hippocampus. That is right, movement impacts cognition… and memory. A recent systemic review of […]