Remembers Only




Big Picture Science show

Summary: <p><span class="caps">ENCORE</span> You must remember this… wait, wait… I had it… on the tip of my tongue… (Memory is a tricky thing and most of us would like to improve it)… oh, yes: Discover the secrets of stupefying, knock-your-socks-off recall by a U.S. Memory Champion. </p> <p>Also, almost everything we know about memory comes from the life of one man born in 1926 and known as H.M., the world’s “most unforgettable amnesiac.” </p> <p>Plus, the sum total of the global data storage capacity in hard drives, thumb drives, the Internet, you name it… guess how many exabytes it comes to? </p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://whoville.ucsd.edu/about.html">Larry Squire</a></strong> – Professor of psychiatry and neurosciences and psychology at the University of California, San Diego and a scientist at the VA Medical Center in San Diego</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://radiology.ucsd.edu/faculty_staff/jannese.html">Jacopo Annese</a></strong> – Neuroanatomist and Director of the <a href="http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/">Brain Observatory</a> at the University of California, San Diego</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://joshuafoer.com/">Joshua Foer</a></strong> – Author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159420229X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=arweal-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399353&amp;creativeASIN=159420229X">Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=159420229X&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""><label id="showTextCategoryLinkPreview_l1"> <img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=159420229X&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399357" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></label></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Doctoral%20Students/Hilbert%20Martin.aspx%20">Martin Hilbert</a></strong> – Economist and social scientist, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism</li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-del-instituto-seti-recordando-solamente/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> <p>First released May 30, 2011</p>