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Old 10-13-2010, 02:20 PM   #21
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Aren't we witty today
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Old 10-13-2010, 02:21 PM   #22
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I would think we have many bridge playing Shakespeare readers on the site that have a warped sense of humor
Well, I dunno about the first two, but the third seems to describe most of the folks 'round here
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Old 10-13-2010, 02:36 PM   #23
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Just my way of getting through the day. I did my first ever session of Yin Yoga today. Maybe all that positive energy has brought out the Big Yin in me.
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I think most of this non-problem is an American cultural overemphasis on hypervigilant self-assessments designed to alert us to the slightest amount of memory decline.
In support of this, I've noted a very strong resemblance between the complaints of a professor friend of mine (who has never been treated for cancer) and some cancer patients being treated with chemotherapy. They both complain of memory lapses, and the latter, of course, attribute them to the chemotherapy poisons they need to take. But what is the actual similarity? They're all getting older, and they're all worried about losing cognitive function, and monitoring themselves.
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Old 10-13-2010, 04:40 PM   #26
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Old 10-13-2010, 05:14 PM   #28
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This is the problem with almost all of the studies reported in the press.
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I remember Tom Rush.
They say you hang on to the old memories last. Unless you grew up in the 60s, when you probably didn't remember them anyways.

A video of his performance of Steven Walters' "The Remember Song" was placed on YouTube and to date (March 2010) it has received over 4 million plays. Writing on his website, Rush said "I've been waiting 45 years to be an overnight sensation, and it's finally happened!

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Old 10-13-2010, 07:01 PM   #30
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wonder how many will get that
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