memory
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Journey Into the Brutal, Magical World of Debut Fantasy The Wolf and the Woodsman
In Ava Reid’s The Wolf and the Woodsman, a young woman named Évike becomes an outcast in her village because she doesn’t have magic powers (at least, none that she knows of). She’s sent away as a sacrifice, but her fate changes dramatically after she survives a monster attack. Today, Gizmodo has more from Reid’s…
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A Chatbot Is Mysteriously Sending Droves of People to Listen to Grimes and Stevie Wonder
When did we find ourselves on a music hamster wheel? Slowly, over years, with every daily Spotify playlist, my ever-shortening menu of pellets features five artists I used to love, and also DJ Khaled, for some reason. It’s functional; it can synch my BPM for running and effectively dull the hyper-aware blog brain. But the…
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Scientists Implant and Then Reverse False Memories in People
Researchers have demonstrated just how easy it is to trick the mind into remembering something that didn’t happen. They also used two very simple techniques to reverse those false memories, in a feat that paves the way for a deeper understanding of how memory works.
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Censor’s Layers of Horror Make for a Creepy Meta Narrative
On the surface, Censor — which had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival — is about a person we’re predisposed to hate: a film censor. A person who watches a movie and decides what’s appropriate for other people to watch. How dare they, right? What makes them so freakin’ special?