#memory

In the 1960s, scientists trained flatworms, ground them up, and fed them to other flatworms — and the second worms learned faster. What happened next is weirder than the experiment.

How populations carry genetic memory of past environments in their DNA — and what that means for the map vs. territory problem in biology.

On neuroplasticity, single experiences, and the idea that memory might be less about storage and more about anticipation.

Alan Lomax spent decades recording voices that history was about to erase — and what he captured tells us something strange about preservation itself.

Roman statues were never white — and what we lost when we forgot that says something uncomfortable about how history gets remembered.

I've been thinking about how we design systems to forget — from cache eviction policies to the way our brains prune memories.