In this trendwatching podcast, Cathi Bond talks about the potential for a memory pill, not to help you remember, but to erase painful memories. BBC reports that in tests on mice, researchers were able to make the mice overproduce a protein, which seemed to get rid of difficult memories (what difficult memories do mice have, anyway?). The thinking is that down the road, this may lead to a pill for humans. Good? Creepy? Both?  Nora mentions propranolol along the way.

Meanwhile, Nora Young talks about Multicolr, a very cool tool that lets you select Flickr photos by colour! (via dinosaurs and robots) Multicolr is a product of Toronto-based Idee.

 

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Tags: cool tools, memory

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