I’ve been reading John Muir’s account of his 1879 trip to Alaska, which he wrote based on his journals and notes from that trip and then published in 1915. As the small ship on which he sailed was passing among…
Often we think of poetry as focused on expressing the emotions and experiences of our individual lives, immediately, intensely, distilled to the essence of the experience we recall. Poetry can do that. But it can do other things as well.…
Have you ever noticed that a small detail triggers a memory or seemingly unrelated subject? Memories appear roughly 400 milliseconds after the triggering exposure, according to research reported on the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s blog. This research aims to shed…
