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Can Forgetting Help You Remember?
The New Yorker· 3 days ago(Doubleday), Charan Ranganath, a neuropsychologist at U.C. Davis, writes that the question he always gets when he mentions that he studies memory is “Why...
Wythe author reflects on faith healing during Chilhowie Friends of the Library gathering
Bristol Herald Courier· 4 days agoIda didn’t drive, but over the phone she offered a healing chant and, two to three miles away, the...
Class Consciousness for Billionaires
The New Yorker· 3 days ago“As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West” (Princeton), a new book by the Italian historian Guido Alfani, shares these scholars’ political...
I finally understand my mother's tough love
Salon.com· 4 days agoOnly days before, I’d received notification my grandmother had died from one of the four roommates I shared a house with on Harvard Street in Washington,...
A Great Day in South L.A. Offers Black History Tours - Los Angeles Sentinel
Los Angeles Sentinel· 22 hours agoIf you are a transplant who lives in L.A. or a current resident and want a tour of the heart of South L.A., Janae Green has something just for you. Green has launched “A Great Day in South LA ...
Kingston Memorial Day Parade set for May 27
The Eagle-Tribune· 5 days agoThe Kingston Veteran’s Club annual rolling parade will line up and start rolling at 1 p.m. Monday, May 27, from Kingston Town Hall, 163 Main St. The...
What's in a name?
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 3 days agoThe great English poet Ben Jonson once noted that “Indeed there is a woundy luck in names, sir,” and for proof you need look no further than any of John Train’s “Remarkable Names” collections ...
