Remembrance of Things Past.

Remembrance of Things Past

Remembrance of Things Past: Greenhouse Lessons from the Geologic Record

Global climate--like local weather--is ever changing, on all time scales, in response to natural variations. For this reason, projections of global warming, resulting from increasing levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases, need to be set in the context of what has happened in the past. A knowledge of what has changed, and when and where, provides insights into why past changes have occurred. Su...

The remembrance of things past: on the collection and recollection of ingredients useful in the treatment of disorders resulting from unhappiness, rootlessness, and the fear of things to come.

Lack of hope for future change is hypothesized as a distinguishing factor between suicidally depressed young adolescents and other young people who are also objectless, the developmentally dispossessed. Methods by which the affective reserve of hope and self-love can be therapeutically augmented are suggested, and speculations are offered on the role of the personal past and group past in gener...

Nursing Behavior: Remembrance of Things Past

Successful suckling is vital to the survival of mammalian newborns. In many mammals, nursing behavior is triggered by maternally derived odors. Such odors may also promote the learned association of odorant cues present in the environment during nursing.

A Crumpled Sheet’s Remembrance of Things Past

W hat does a material “know” about its past? Exploring this question can yield insights into a material’s internal structure and dynamics. A new paper by Yoav Lahini and colleagues at Harvard University [1] shows that the act of crumpling a thin sheet—for instance, wadding up a candy wrapper—allows it to “remember” past events for days. This memory effect indicates that crumpled sheets are more...

Remembrance of things past and concerns for the future.

Stanley G. Schultz received the seventh annual Arthur C. Guyton Physiology Teacher of the Year Award. The following is a speech he delivered as he was presented the award at Experimental Biology '99 in Washington, DC, in April 1999.