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http://www.wsj.com/articles/does-technology-belong-in-classroom-instruction-1431100454

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Henry Gustav Molaison (February 26, 1926 – December 2, 2008), known widely asH.M., was an American memory disorder patient who had a bilateral medial temporallobectomy to surgically remove the anterior two thirds of his hippocampi,parahippocampal cortices, entorhinal cortices, piriform cortices, and amygdalae in an attempt to cure his epilepsy. He was widely studied from late 1957 until his death in 2008.[1][2] His case played a very important role in the development of theories that explain the link between brain function and memory, and in the development ofcognitive neuropsychology, a branch of psychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes. He resided in a care institute located in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, where he was the subject of ongoing investigation.[3]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial_temporal_lobe

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EP is six-foot-two (1.9 meters), with perfectly parted white hair and unusually long ears. He’s personable, friendly, gracious. He laughs a lot. He seems at first like your average genial grandfather. But 15 years ago, the herpes simplex virus chewed its way through his brain, coring it like an apple. By the time the virus had run its course, two walnut-size chunks of brain matter in the medial temporal lobes had disappeared, and with them most of EP’s memory.
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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2007/11/memory/foer-text

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/upshot/investing-in-the-dark-the-biggest-cost-of-fear-is-paralysis.html?ref=mutfund&_r=0

http://www.njbiz.com/article/20150119/NJBIZ01/301169998/a-game-changer-the-hackensackseton-hall-school-of-medicine-and-research-facility

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2006/04/kaavya_syndrome.html

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In 1970, a Harvard vision scientist named Charles Stromeyer III published a landmark paper in Nature about a Harvard student named Elizabeth, who could perform an astonishing feat. Stromeyer showed Elizabeth’s right eye a pattern of 10,000 random dots, and a day later, he showed her left eye another dot pattern. She mentally fused the two images to form a random-dot stereogram and then saw a three-dimensional image floating above the surface. Elizabeth seemed to offer the first conclusive proof that photographic memory is possible. But then in a soap-opera twist, Stromeyer married her, and she was never tested again.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/sunday-review/enduring-summers-deep-freeze.html?_r=0

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-genom-090413-025448

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“Exploration has a second meaning: Running pilot tests to explore ideas, refine procedures and tasks, and guide where precious research effort is best directed is often one of the most rewarding stages of research. No matter how intriguing, however, the results of such pilot work rarely deserve even a brief mention in a report. The aim of such work is to discover how to prespecify in detail a study that is likely to find answers to our research questions, and that must be reported. Any researcher needs to choose the moment to switch from
not-for-reporting pilot testing to prespecified, must-be-reported research.”
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http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/07/0956797613504966.long