Memory And Forgetting
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Do you forget to do important things? It isn’t always your fault
No matter how hard you try to remember your plans, there is always an element of luck involved.
Thor Grünbaum, The Conversation & Søren Kyllingsbæk, The Conversation
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Yoko Ogawa’s novel ‘The Memory Police’ reminds us of the things about India we must never forget
If we begin to lose our memories of our country, or allow them to be changed, there will be a time when we will lose ourselves.
Ankita Chawla
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What is the Mandela effect? And why is it cited to explain the unlikely election of Donald Trump?
Many of us share memories of things that never happened. What’s the science behind this?
Neil Dagnall and Ken Drinkwater, The Conversation
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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Karnataka forms SIT to probe ‘obscene videos’ case allegedly involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna
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Why Calcutta HC struck down 25,000 teachers’ appointments and how it could impact the election
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Point, click, forget: Our obsession with taking photos is changing how we remember the past
Memories are an important part of our identity and we increasingly entrust them to the cloud – with potentially serious consequences.
Giuliana Mazzoni, The Conversation
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Watch: And now, fake memories. Can you tell them apart from real ones?
Not always. And soon, maybe not at all.
Scroll Staff
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Looking into the Mandela effect: Why many of us share memories of things that never happened
Tempting as it may to believe, the Mandela effect, as it is known, may not be proof of the existence of a multiverse.
Caitlin Aamodt
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