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How humans store memories is ‘cornerstone of our intelligence’

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Memory is a ‘cornerstone of human intelligence’: Our ability to recall events and store them all in one part of the brain is what elevates us above other animals, study claims University of Leicester researchers directly recorded brain activity in humans  Found evidence the human brain uses same neurons to store all memories  Previous theory … Read more

Britain’s cornerstone: ROBERT HARDMAN says our defiant smaller stores still have all we need

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Historians still quibble over whether Napoleon Bonaparte actually said it or not. Yet it has stuck. And it was certainly not meant as a compliment.  ‘England,’ scoffed the former French Emperor in his twilight years, ‘is a nation of shopkeepers.’  To which, right now, one can only respond: ‘Amen to that.’  For as we confront … Read more