What's the topic again?

The headline says a lot, a lot more than it delivers, but that is the nature of headlines: A tiny part of the most low level memory is what they are mentioning.

Breakthrough allows scientists to watch how molecules morph into memories

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-breakthrough-scientists-molecules-morph-memories.html#nwlt

Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement

Is quantum entanglement the result of standard space-time wormholes?? John Baez thinks it is worth considering:

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/01/wormholes_and_entanglement.html

If we posit an ultimately physical nature for all reality, consciousness, and the whole chirping business, this might be a nice model of how that would work. What natural scientists don't grasp is that there is nothing contradictory between the material and the mystical. Not if you soldier on in your theorizing.

Veering towards reality

How birds fly in a V formation --

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/15/birds-that-fly-in-a-v-formation-use-an-amazing-trick/

Notice the big questions are unanswered, like how the birds manage to stay in tune.

Atomic level details still a mystery

This is a description of an article, behind a pay wall at a magazine named: Nature Structural & Molecular BiologyA molecular motor finds its track pp920 - 921
Jared C Cochran and F Jon Kull
doi:10.1038/nsmb.2644
The detailed mechanism by which the molecular motors kinesin and
myosin travel along their respective protein tracks as they generate
force during motile processes is still poorly understood. In a recent
breakthrough, a crystal structure of kinesin in complex with tubulin
illuminates the atomic-level details of a motor-track interaction,
answering many questions yet leaving a number of mysteries unresolved.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=37&ms=NDIyMzkwMDkS1&r=MTc2OTgwNzA4NAS2&b=2&j=MTk3NDk3ODEwS0&mt=1&rt=0

Rip and click

Science finds:

- If you can remember it, you can remember it wrong 

Some things don't change, right?

Nice write up about neurogenesis -- new brain cells--  and new research. The author poses the question of what use are these new neuron cells in the brain. One answer does not occur to her, and won't to scientists, either. The world is changing, and man's brain needs to change also, to increase his intellectual functions, perceptions, and adaptations. The brain is changing. Makes scientists shiver to consider that. The idea that 2+2 might equal one thing today, and a different thing tomorrow, would seem to pull the rug out from under any intellectual discourse. So whisper when you discuss this. Or not.

Study on electricity needs to be replicated

An exciting study at Tufts University finding that there is a unique electric sign to cells that are likely to change in a manner that is not considered healthy for a person..