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Re:The blessing and curse of people who never forget by plq on Sunday February 21, 2016 @05:44PM (#11147023)
I remember the Jill Price case. Turned out she was obsessively going over all her memories, non-stop, all the time. So hers was a normal brain, just trained very well to retain memories by unending repetition.

I just skimmed the article, but findings seem no different -- only more people are found to have this condition, and it actually has a sciencey name now: HSAM.

I wonder why BBC is running a story about this again?

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Re:The blessing and curse of people who never forget by gaur on Sunday February 21, 2016 @07:04PM (#11147382)
> I wonder why BBC is running a story about this again?

The BBC's science reporting is just shitty. They will repeat essentially any claim that is told to them. Off the top of my head, I can recall:

* They ran an article about a "three-headed frog" discovered by some schoolchildren, when in reality it was obviously three frogs engaged in amplexus. [0]

* They ran an article about an entirely forgettable mathematical crackpot who claimed to have "solved" division by zero. [1]

* They ran an article about blondes going extinct. [2]

* They ran an article that was essentially the plot of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. [3]

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/3534361....

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2006/12/06/d...

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2284783.stm

[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6057734.stm

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Re:The blessing and curse of people who never forget by techdragon on Sunday February 21, 2016 @11:44PM (#11148496)
I know content is king... But seriously this is just sad.
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Re:The blessing and curse of people who never forget by spacehome on Sunday February 21, 2016 @08:47PM (#11147824)
I thought you were exaggerating, but dear God.
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Re:The blessing and curse of people who never forget by QSIITurbo on Sunday February 21, 2016 @05:50PM (#11147049)
Because it's fantastical to think that some people have superpowers even though that's not the case. As an anecdote, I've met a couple of people who have claimed to have eidetic memories. All have turned out to be full of s++t :)
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