I Have a Terrible Memory. Am I Better Off That Way? MetaFilter By: ellieBOA 19 June 2024 at 17:12 The existential divide between Rememberers and Forgetters. [The Cut / Archive]
FDA Advisory Panel Endorses Approval of Alzheimerβs Drug Made by Eli Lilly NYT: Science By: Gina Kolata and Pam Belluck 10 June 2024 at 17:05 The modest benefits of the treatment, donanemab, made by Eli Lilly, outweigh the risks, the panel concluded unanimously.
Stories of language loss often mask other, larger losses MetaFilter By: bq 8 June 2024 at 21:12 Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren't as embedded as we think. Madeleine Schwartz for the NYT: "For a long time, a central question in linguistics was how people learn language. But in the past few decades, a new field of study called "language attrition" has emerged. It concerns not learning but forgetting: What causes language to be lost?"