Meddling medical men meld made-up memories to mice's minds, may make man-as-memory moot

Link here to a report on scientists introducing false memories in mice.

Of course, erasing memories for sufferers of PTSD is progress, but science is Promethean, and it would be remiss not to note the anxieties set out in Blade Runner/ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.  If personality is the sum of memories (bodily as well as intellectually, of course) then what could this mean for personality itself?

Fry up on bathetic British banknote bust-up; campaigners kick off, crow about Equality Act infraction

Utterly mental. Link here.Let's just stick abstract shapes on them and have done with it. Let's erase Darwin and Smith and Hublon in the name of equality (nod to Dostoevsky's Devils, there). They've emasculated and denationalised  the Euro, so why wouldn't the BoE do it with the pound? Just stick on some non-local shapes and let the equalisers have what they want.