When We're Awake, Cortisol Can Fragment Memories

Operating-room Errors Hold A Special Terror For Patients, If Only Because They Seem Like The Most Avoidable Kind Of Complications. The Occasional Horror Stories Of Patients Who Have The Wrong Leg Removed Or The Wrong Knee Replaced Generate The Most Headlines, As Do Tales Of Patients Whose Identities Are Mixed Up Entirely.

Marketers Have Long Known That A Name Can Make All The Difference When You're Trying To Move The Merch. The Kiwifruit Was Once The Chinese Gooseberry, After All - At Least Until The Produce Peddlers Wised Up - And The Chilean Sea Bass Was Once The Singularly Unappetizing Patagonian Toothfish.

Photography Is About Freezing A Moment In Time; Mcginley's Is About Freezing A Stage In A Lifetime.

When It Comes To Raising Civilized Kids There Are No Hard Rules, But There Are Two Things On Which Most Parents Agree: Boys Are Generally Wilder Than Girls, And Adolescents Are Wilder Than Kids Of Any Other Age. If You've Got An Adolescent Boy, You're In The Sweet Spot For Trouble.

When We're Awake, Cortisol Can Fragment Memories - One Reason Eyewitness Crime Scene Accounts Are So Unreliable. But At Night That Very Fragmentation Allows Creative Recombinations Of Ideas.