Keep your memory green

Many people, as they grow older, worry about their memory slipping. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, there is no magic bullet. The first bit of good news, though, is that older adults, on the whole, are remarkably strategic problem solvers; those years of life experience aren’t for naught.

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Vignettes

Treating shadows as real objects

Using our senses we think that we see real things such birds, ships and houses. If somebody says that we do not see real birds, ships and houses, they will be treated as insane. However, Plato did just that but nobody called him an insane person.

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Thorns on the Side

The ‘reality’ of nature

Is 'reality’ television going too far? We pose this question in the wake of a Discovery Channel special where a naturalist tried to get himself eaten alive by a huge anaconda. Although the stunt did not go down well and the naturalist was pulled away to safety before any damage could be done,

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