Brain Power - Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory - Series - NYTimes.com: "Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain. Could make you forget a chronic fear, a traumatic loss, even a bad habit.
Researchers in Brooklyn have recently accomplished comparable feats, with a single dose of an experimental drug delivered to areas of the brain critical for holding specific types of memory, like emotional associations, spatial knowledge or motor skills."
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It didn't turn out well in the movie.
Isn't this why people take drugs in the first place?
Oh! Oh! They can help me forget that "D" I got in Trigonometry. My life will be perfect again!
No even better, I can read my favorite book, then they'll erase the memory, and I can read it again...and again...
Does this mean we could erase our memories of the opening ceremonies at the St. Paul Bouchercon - the one with the "Bouchercondoms", not the Magician?
Why not both?
Why not, indeed? And how about the last eight years as a bonus?
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