Poet Lucille Clifton
The poet Lucille Clifton communicates the richness and complexity of memories, both personal and public.
View ArticlePlaying Our Song
Producer Jeff Lunden explores how specific songs can trigger intense emotional memories.
View ArticleDesign for Memory
Architect David Hoglund talks with Studio 360's Julie Burstein about his design for Woodside Place, a facility for Alzheimer's patients that offers people with severe memory loss a sense of...
View ArticleCommentary: Amnesia Nation
The amnesiac character is a staple in the movies — but now there's more than ever. Kurt wonders if there's a hidden appeal to reinvention.
View ArticleMemory and Music
Classical music can give us the grandeur and gravity we crave. And the words can bring it down to earth, closer to the specifics of what we're trying to recall. Sara Fishko looks at memory, music, and...
View Article360 Staff Pick: Memory Wall
An Alzheimer's patient in South Africa gets addicted to a machine that reboots lost memories. A dying woman's seizures force her to relive the time she spent at an orphanage in Nazi Germany. These...
View ArticleMaking Memories with a Microchip
Ted Berger is trying to build a microchip that can remember things for us. He teaches biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California,andhis goal is to create a device that can take...
View ArticleAndré Aciman's Essays on Elsewhere
André Aciman talks about his new book of essays, Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere, about time, place, identity, art, and the power of memory.
View ArticleMeet Your Mind: Memory and Forgetting
Broadcast Times: Sunday, 7am on AM 820 and 9pm on 93.9FMDo you think your memory is a record of what actually happened? Chances are, it's not. New scientific findings show that with every act of...
View ArticleSick Leave Deal; Summer Camp Intel; Memory
A deal has been reached to provide paid sick leave to New York City workers. We discuss the details of the plan, the implications, and take calls from supporters and opponents. Plus: Psychologist...
View ArticleMemories and Other Stories
Are we all "unreliable narrators" of our own life stories?Charles Fernyhough, psychologist and the author of Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our...
View ArticleOpen Phones: An Oral History of Nostalgia
We open the phones to have you answer the simple question: What was better back in the day? It's an oral history of nostalgia, starring you. Tell us about what you think was better from a previous era,...
View ArticleThe Woman Without A Memory, And What She Says About All of Us
Many of us—particularly as we age—find our memories betraying us. But for Lonni Sue Johnson, an accomplished artist and musician in her 60s, this betrayal is far greater than most of us can...
View ArticleInstagram Changes Your Memory
Emily Badger, contributor to Atlantic Cities, discusses how Instagram and other services like it change your memory about events. She says it "really changes the way people interact in public space"...
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What Chickadees Have That I Want. Badly
December 23, 2013 —First I look in my right coat pocket. Nothing. Then my left. Nothing. Then my pants, right side — no. Then my pants, left side — yes! This is me at my front door, looking for my...
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Animal Loses Head But Remembers Everything
When I first saw this," says cell biologist Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, "it was with total amazement."Robert Krulwich/NPRThis is a worm. It's called a planarian. It's about an inch long, and you'll...
View ArticleWhat It's Like to Forget Everything About Yourself and Your Life
On October 17, 2002, David Stuart MacLean came to on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. He had no money, no passport, no identity. It turned out that the commonly...
View ArticleChildhood Amnesia: Why Some Memories Fade and Others Don't
Why is it that you can recall some memories like your second grade little league tournament, but not others like your sixth birthday party?New research out of Emory University has identified a crucial...
View ArticleFor a Better Memory, Hit 'Delete'
Betsy Sparrow doesn't know her sister's phone number, and she blames the internet. Sparrow is a Psychology professor at Columbia University where she studies, among other things, how our memories...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Forget Who You Are
On October 17, 2002, David Stuart MacLean came to on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. He had no money, no passport, no identity. It turned out that the commonly...
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