i grew up in an electric house. throughout childhood i had no experience of domestic gas. i did however experience gas once or twice a year, when m&d would take we kids on budget camping holidays, in n, s, or w nsw. on those, mum cooked on a little two-burner "companion" gas stove. also, on those early morn sydney departures for said hols, when we'd pull up in some roadside place for brekkie enroute, dad would light a single burner screwed directly onto one of the companion gas bottles, to make tea & toast.
i've lived in my current house for 23 years. it's my first with electricity and piped gas [the latter perceived as a bonus when i bought it, but now viewed with shame]. minutes ago i wandered out to the kitchen to do something i've done countless times over these decades... watered the kettle, bunged it onto the cooktop, & ignited the respective burner.
somehow, this time, uniquely, that initial whoosh of the first flame, transported me back to 12, on the side of the road, or in the tent. how weird! i've long known how evocative of old memories smell can be, but not so much sound... so this was a pretty amazeballs sensation, coz the effect was instant, & the image was crystal sharp.
Monument to the Revolution of the People of Moslavina (Spomenik Revolucije Naroda Moslavine); Podgarić; Croatia
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Summary: A study published in Psychology and Aging examines whether caring for grandchildren is associated with cognitive health in older adults. Using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and propensity score matching on nearly 3,000 grandparents, the findings show higher memory and verbal fluency among caregivers, with grandmothers also showing a slower rate of decline; however, the frequency of care and the specific activities performed did not predict cognitive change over time.
Why it matters: The findings illustrate how social engagement and the sense of role involvement associated with grandparent caregiving relate to cognitive aging, and they reveal gender differences in how protective effects emerge. They also highlight that benefits may arise from the caregiving experience itself rather than the amount of time spent or particular tasks. This invites further study into how relationships and everyday roles influence brain health.
Article Title: Caring for grandchildren is linked to better brain health in older adults
Link to PsyPost Article: ift dot tt/BVQEw9W
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"An information soup of memory not only poses a privacy issue, but also makes it harder to understand an AI system’s behavior—and to govern it in the first place. So what can developers do to fix this problem?
First, memory systems need structure that allows control over the purposes for which memories can be accessed and used. Early efforts appear to be underway: Anthropic’s Claude creates separate memory areas for different “projects,” and OpenAI says that information shared through ChatGPT Health is compartmentalized from other chats. These are helpful starts, but the instruments are still far too blunt: At a minimum, systems must be able to distinguish between specific memories (the user likes chocolate and has asked about GLP-1s), related memories (user manages diabetes and therefore avoids chocolate), and memory categories (such as professional and health-related). Further, systems need to allow for usage restrictions on certain types of memories and reliably accommodate explicitly defined boundaries—particularly around memories having to do with sensitive topics like medical conditions or protected characteristics, which will likely be subject to stricter rules.
Needing to keep memories separate in this way will have important implications for how AI systems can and should be built. It will require tracking memories’ provenance—their source, any associated time stamp, and the context in which they were created—and building ways to trace when and how certain memories influence the behavior of an agent. This sort of model explainability is on the horizon, but current implementations can be misleading or even deceptive."
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Let’s talk about memory.
Memory Storage Devices - Bell System 1959
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
-- Elizabeth Bowen
До цієї клятої війни ми не були ...
Робер Мерль
Avant cette putain de guerre, on n'était pas ...
Robert Merle
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Absolutely. That's why my preferred method is actually the best of analog and digital - inking notes in #OneNote with a tablet device.
Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your #Memory and Recall, #Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand) https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/keep-forgetting-things-to-improve-your-memory-and-recall-science-says-start-taking-notes-by-hand/91291102
Cooking can be dangerous
Doing a memory test on my PC since I've been having weird issues with it
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Recent findings illuminate how gustatory sensations can directly engage brain networks tied to attention, motivation, stress response, arousal, and memory. For social workers, mental health professionals, and therapists, this highlights how basic sensory experiences may shape cognitive and emotional states, with potential implications for engagement and learning processes. In mouse studies, flavanols boosted activity, curiosity, learning, and memory even when bloodstream entry was minimal, pointing to sensory-driven neural activation as a key mechanism. While extrapolation to humans requires caution, the core idea invites consideration of sensory cues in understanding arousal and cognitive functioning within clinical contexts.
Article Title: That dry, bitter taste may be waking up your brain
Link to Science Daily Mind-Brain News: https://ift dot tt/6VRoTix
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Hello. I have found collage to be useful to express my inner thought patterns. I lived as a front line worker in the level one trauma center of Saint John New Brunswick, Canada for 12 of my 22 years as a registered nurse. due to my condition I have fragmented memory and cognition. It is as though I have 50 televisions on at the same time time, all at full volume. I have great difficulty filtering and prioritizing information. Through collage, collecting images and reconstructing them is a good form of therapy for myself. Please enjoy as I post recent art since being knocked out of commission.
We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily
The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.
[Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 1 “To Augustus,” l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/81900/
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