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PS Picks: Atlas Obscura’s Collection of Secret Family Recipes

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kate Wheeling

News in Brief

We Need to Re-Think How Much Stock We Put in Alibis

Inconsistencies in alibis are an almost inevitable product of our flawed memory system, but they are still judged…

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

On a Grandma’s House and the Unknowability of the Past

They can feel as lifelike as virtual reality, but memories represent unreachable places.

Elisa Gabbert

News in Brief

A Stranger in the House of Memory

Of the many experts who figured in Henry Molaison’s life, one man would change him into amnesiac patient…

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

How False Memories Form

A Michigan counselor faces a lawsuit from parents who believe the therapist’s techniques gave their daughter false memories…

Pacific Standard Staff

Environment

‘Kiss Everybody’: Parents’ Voicemails Preserve Their Memory in Death

One reporter marvels over how the things he cherishes most about his parents aren’t those that he would have ever imagined.

Charles Ornstein

Environment

The Digital Land Mines of Modern Break-Ups

Selective disposal of digital artifacts is the best way to deal with the aftermath, but you might need your friends and an algorithm to help get you there.

Rick Paulas

Social Justice

We Don’t Always Remember Public Tragedy Very Accurately

A decade-long study shows that our vivid memories of where, when, and how we found out about September 11th may often be wrong.

Nathan Collins

Social Justice

The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The ‘Neuroscience and Hollywood’ Professor Who Wants to Erase Memories

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

Avital Andrews