BOOK EXCERPT Memory and guilt — Artist explores the intersections between private and public histories in Namibia 9 min 0 By Sean O’Toole
BOOK EXCERPT The Distance Within by Nicola Brandt — Namibia from a personal, historical and cultural documentary perspective 8 min 0 By Nicola Brandt
The Conversation Changes to speech and language can help detect Alzheimer’s early – here are five things to look out for 3 min 0 By Sarah Curtis
THE CONVERSATION Six ways to look after your brain health in your 20s and 30s 3 min 0 By Jitka Vseteckova and Corrina Grimes
The Conversation Forgetting appointments and deadlines − what is prospective memory and how to improve yours 5 min 1 By Sarah Raskin
REFLECTION Nostalgia – there’s more to it than just an unhealthy attachment to the past… and it might be a good thing 4 min 0 By Florence de Vries
THE CONVERSATION Pictures of health – why drawing is a great boost for children’s development 4 min 0 By Richard Jolley and Sarah Rose
MATTERS OF THE ART Unfathomable – an interdisciplinary and collective inquiry into grief and memory 6 min 0 By David Mann
THE CONVERSATION Are ‘core memories’ real? The science behind 5 common myths 1 min 0 By Penny Van Bergen and Celia Harris
THE CONVERSATION New study seeks to explain the ‘Mandela Effect’ – the bizarre phenomenon of shared false memories 4 min 0 By Deepasri Prasad and Wilma Bainbridge
THE CONVERSATION Handwritten diaries may feel old fashioned, but they offer insights that digital diaries just can’t match 4 min 0 By Paula Vene Smith
THE CONVERSATION Walking is a state of mind – it can teach you so much about where you are 4 min 0 By Aled Mark Singleton
THE CONVERSATION Why can’t you remember being born, learning to walk or saying your first words? What scientists know about ‘infantile amnesia’ 4 min 0 By Vanessa LoBue
THE CONVERSATION Why it isn’t always your fault when you can’t remember 3 min 0 By Thor Grünbaum and Søren Kyllingsbæk
THE CONVERSATION Monkeys can sense their own heartbeats, an ability tied to mental health, consciousness and memory in humans 3 min 0 By Joey Charbonneau and Eliza Bliss-Moreau
REFLECTION Towards the light: The struggle of memory to find a common South African destiny through the fog of history 6 min 1 By Marianne Thamm