Space travel milestone has me rethinking women in Michael Crichton's Sphere

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.nytimes.com)

Although this article is ostensibly a commemoration of the first time that both the space shuttle commander and international space station commander have been women, it also spends a good amount of time on the way shuttle maneuvers have changed post-Columbia and how the pilots are accustomed to "counterintuitive" maneuvers designed to prevent accidents and shuttle damage. It really had me rethinking the role of the flight simulators.

Another thing it has me rethinking is the reasoning of science fiction author Michael Crichton

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Psychologists and literary historians cooperate on conclusion: There's probably no such thing as repressed memories.

Hecate submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.nytimes.com)

Here is a good example of how history and medicine can cross over: It seems that there are no historical references to repressed memories before 1800, when novelists began using it as a plot device, not in fiction and not in nonfiction. Scientists and literary scholars collaborated on this project, which was written up in [i]Psychological Medicine[/i].

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