Messages get jumbled because memory is reconstructive, cognitive biases shape interpretation, and social context alters how information is retold, much like a game of Telephone.

Seventy-five years ago today, Fort Santiago in Intramuros was declared a national shrine by virtue of Republic Act No. 597. I dug up the law and was surprised to learn that Fort Santiago was supposed ...

This study provides important insights into how working memory shapes perceptual decisions, using a dual-task design, continuous mouse tracking, and hierarchical Bayesian modeling. By dissociating ...

The American history of voting rights demonstrates that rights granted by the state are fragile and can be revoked by legislation and judicial decree, proving that true rights are inherent to ...

We live in an age of obsolescence. If you are 45 years old you will have seen vinyl rendered archaic by a wave of similarly replaceable technologies: the cassette, the CD, the MP3 player, and the ...

The US operates in a perpetual state of internal war, and the white supremacist legacy of domestic warfare has reached ...

This absence goes beyond a lack of material preservation mechanisms. It affects collective self-perception and the sense of ...

New monuments and archives around Raleigh and NC State reveal how Black history is remembered decades later, showing how public memory evolves and what stories were once left out.

What should happen to the architectural remnants of a fallen dictatorship? The instinctive answer is: tear them down.

In the record books of Western governments and media, the death of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, marked the demise of a tyrant and global menace.He was ...

Board game designers Cole Wehrle and Amabel Holland talk about designing distressing historical games - and whether to make them at all.

Figuring out who to screen could change the game. This discovery is getting us closer.