The traditional view of memory, and the one that persists among most of us, is that it is something like a storehouse of movies on a computer’s hard drive. This is a false concept of memory, analogous ...

Consider the volume of personal details in our lives that we remember accurately, and over long periods of time: The names of friends, colleagues, and people in our family; our own name, our birthday, ...

You don't need to know the role of the artery of Adamkiewicz or mechanisms of liver failure. You can Google it. And, you don't need to remember it once you've looked it up -- Google will remember for ...