The way the process works, the authors say, is something like reconstructing a night's activities after a hangover: remembering a fact (a broken table) recalls a scene (dancing), which in turn brings to mind more facts — like the other people who were there — and so on.
If you've had one of those weeks in which your appearance and weight were on your mind more than you'd like, a photo we found on Reddit Friday may help.
Thankfully, my Minds Matter mentors encouraged (more like forced) me to explore what I really want in a school: small class sizes, extracurricular activities I'm interested in, and a variety of good majors (since I am not exactly sure yet what I want to pursue).
No, I have in mind more recent episodes like the reaction four years ago when Obama chose her as Secretary of State and we were treated to all manner of ludicrous attack.
Each new place is like Bruce Chatwin's "Timbuktu of the mind" — more mirage than reality.
Unfortunately, the resulting pictures look less like the charming family snapshot they probably had in mind and more like a still from horror movie The Others.
But some scientists seem to have in mind something more like a paradigm shift of the sort popularized by Thomas Kuhn in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".
