RESEARCH

WORDS ASSOCIATED

100 Billion

The mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.

-Latin memoria “mem- ory, remembrance, faculty of remember- ing,” abstract noun from memor “mindful, remembering,”
-from PIE root *(s)mer- (1) “to remember.”

late 13c., “recollection (of someone or some- thing); remembrance, awareness or con- sciousness

MEMORY

Each memory tweaks some tiny subset of the neurons in the brain (the human brain has 100 billion neurons in all), changing the way they communicate. Neurons send messages to one another across narrow gaps called synapses. A synapse is like a bustling port, complete with machinery for sending and receiving cargo—neurotrans- mitters, specialized chemi- cals that convey signals be- tween neurons

Isolation

n.
: noun of action from isolate (v.)
-to set or place apart, to detach so as to make alone

The mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.

n.
: noun of action from isolate (v.)
-to set or place apart, to detach so as to make alone

-English at first used the French word (isole, also isole’d, c. 1750), then after isolate (v.) became an English word, isolated became its past participle.

14.3% vs. 7.3%

from Latin insulatus
“made into an island,” from insula “island”

-English at first used the French word (isole, also isole’d, c. 1750), then after isolate (v.) became an English word, isolated became its past participle.

from Latin insulatus
“made into an island,” from insula “island”

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NOSTALGIA

-From Greek algos “pain, grief, distress” + nostos “homecoming,” from neomai “to reach some place, escape, return, get home,”

-from PIE *nes- “to return safely home”

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-From Greek algos “pain, grief, distress” + nostos “homecoming,” from neomai “to reach some place, escape, return, get home,”

TECHNOLOGY

n.
: the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment.

n.
: the branch of knowl- edge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment.

n.
-tekhnologia
greek
-systematic treatment of an art, craft tech- nique, led to todays def.

-logia
orgin greek
a speaking, discovery, theory

300 years ago, nostalgia was considered a curse of the clinically depressed, but now, it is widely seen as a posi- tive attribute of human con- sciousness. It’s simply your brain reacting to a cognitive trigger from some part of your sense memory, or a pro- tective reaction of the brain to boost our spirits when we’re feeling blue.

REACTION

v.
:an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
-Biology. any behavior of a living organism that results from an external or internal stimulus.

-directly from Latin re- sponsum “an answer,” noun use of neuter past participle of respondere “respond, answer to, promise in return,”

v.
:an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
-Biology. any behavior of a living organism that results from an external or internal stimulus.

-from re- “back” (see re-) + spondere “to pledge” (see sponsor (n.)).

TECHNOLOGY

NOSTALGIA