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Dennis Mills's avatar

This post reminds me of the recent study that showed how cognitive behaviour was enhanced after defecation. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666337624000404

Clearly, our beginnings can be traced to our endings. In fact, we know now the ending is the beginning.

Perhaps those suppressed memories can be released with a more organic effort.

Since when did you become a science writer?

Cheers from the grey wet coast of the 51st state.

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Christopher Mooney's avatar

One does not "become" a science writer, one is born to it, for in my beginning is my end, and halfway up is my middle. That, at least, is what T.S. Eliot thought, and he had the constitution of an elephant.

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Laura Calder's avatar

It's the unspoken that's so precise here. haha. Amazing about words affecting lungs. I'm going to take better care of what I say. Nice piece.

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Barbara-jo McIntosh's avatar

Maybe we are programmed to feel we have little memory, but if we stop. Dig deep. It's there.

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