Your Inner Spam Filter

This article is published in June/July edition of the Scientific American. I summarized points that take my attention.

Our mental “in-box” of working memory—the brain regions and processes that create temporary storage—is much more constrained. Our capacity to hold information for immediate use is limited to a mere three or four items.

Scientific American June/July 2008

Reading Scientific American June/July 2008 Edition. Things that catch my attention are Don’t Forget: Keys to Memory on page 48, Avoid Mental Clutter on page 73, We’re Only Human on page 79, and Let Your Creativity Soar on page 23. 

Out of the Box (From the Editor)

… Then it hit me: I was letting my unacknowledged fears and negativity squash my thinking. 

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To do list

I will move to Germany in days. But I still have or plan to do a lot of things. I think it is quite visible to publish one more paper, particularly those in ceramic damage. But I will not have time to write paper on: 

• Cushioning properties of airbag
• Numerical modal of paper honeycomb
• Effect of loading rate to mixed mode fracture.

Perhaps I should do them in Germany.