Scientists awed by `human calendar'

[malganis]

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Stunned by woman's near-perfect ability to recall big events and the tiniest details
Mar. 14, 2006. 05:05 AM

California researchers have uncovered a woman with a memory so detailed and unusual they have quite literally never seen anything like it.

Give her a date and she can tell you what took place — whether it was the final episode of the television soap-opera Dallas, the day actor Robert Blake's wife was killed, the day of the Lockerbie plane crash, the Iranian invasion of the U.S. Embassy, the day Proposition 13 passed in California or the day a plane crashed in Chicago. She can tell you what she was doing at the time. She remembers the weather.

Her life is like a movie on an endless loop, full of emotion. She cannot escape any good or bad thing that ever happened to her.

Asked in November 2003 to list every Easter since 1980, the 40-year-old Jewish woman provided researchers with a list of 24 dates that had one single error. She included details of what she was doing on each of the days.

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[BadCookie]

The Human brain if only we could use more than 10%

[MisterJingo]

The Human brain if only we could use more than 10%

We use 100%, just not all at once. The 10% thing is a long running urban myth.