Author: Marcello Buzzanca
published: Tuesday, 6 Jan 2009
Lee Kuan Yew was the first prime minister to serve the people of Singapore after the independence in 1959. The common yew on his part is an evergreen plant with trunk and leaves, perpetually blooming like our New Year's resolutions, which sometimes may be unaudited or simply not heard - unless you do not provide an appropriate image intensifier (tube) in order to let all the people know that the New Year begins on January 20 and even more that the acronym B.C.E. is the abbreviation of Barack Coming Era and hence a writing on the wall ... in shorthand.
So, how improve last year's performance without perforating treasury? Well, nothing easier that that! Just rely on science and don't bother about soiling governmental nappies though tears will be drying up under the influence of global warming. So, here it is, the everlasting, indestructible New Year's Resolution: Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain by Daniel L. Schacter, Donna Rose Addis & Randy L. Buckner, published on Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 657-661 (September 2007). Price $32, available on subscription, but anyway, isn't writing a skill you just cannot practice enough? And hasn't neuroscience not always been a warrantor to deliberately thinking whatever blazed its trail through the auditory canal, even if it was the Presidential Trail devoted to Barack Obama. It might take 3 days to visit the places where Obama began his political career, but how long will it be until the ultimate destination meets the final instalment of the complete election period?