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Over at Neurophilosphy, there's a wonderful post on "confabulatory hypermnesia," or severe false memory syndrome:
MEMORY, Blake wrote, enables us to "traverse times and spaces far remote". It constitutes mental time travel, with which we can recollect, in vivid detail, events that took place many years ago.

"In the long run, Darwinian selection acts upon cultures. But us in the world at large can't wait for that to make the current cultures of Liberia and Congo go extinct, taking millions of people with them."

From our own Aardvarchaeology. My initial instinct was to post the total fertility rates of Liberia (#5), Congo (#6), and Sweden (#151, the native country of the writer of that sentence). But I didn't. I mean, I know what he meant to say, but I also know he didn't say it.