This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.

With a scarf dangling from your coat pocket and those gloves left behind at the coffee shop, there are simply more things to lose in winter. That’s not counting your misplaced keys at home or those ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

When Catherine O’Hara talked to us in 2023 about returning to the Hollywood Bowl to sing the role of Sally in “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” she surprised us by discussing just how anxious she got ...

My wife still remembers seeing the number in her third-grade classroom. Not a lesson plan. Not a textbook chapter. A tattoo on her teacher’s forearm – the mark the Nazis used after reducing a human ...

I’ve written about so many special days and moments on our calendar, and yet I’ve never written about days that mark the memory of the Holocaust, such as the liberation of Auschwitz, recalled on Jan.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Dr. William H. “Bill” Foege, M.D., a global health hero, died at his Atlanta home on Jan 24.

FLE – Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, Calif., Oct. 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) As enduring ...

For generations, the archbishop of New York has held a singular place in the life of the Catholic Church in the United States — standing at the crossroads of culture, conscience and public witness.

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

When you’re young, you expect to be able to remember things fairly easily. Memory problems are traditionally associated with older people, not young adults in their prime. And yet, young people are ...

In 1997’s Love Jones, Larenz Tate’s Darius Lovehall tells Nina Mosley (Nia Long) the classic line: “The true goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.” It’s a quote ...