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[View in browser]( | [Become a member]( EDITORSâ CHOICE December 25, 2022 Did a friend forward this? [Subscribe here](. Happy Holidays! Start your Sunday with some of the most popular stories from Nautilusâand this weekâs Behind the Scenes with science journalist [Shayla Love]( below [READ NAUTILUS]( SOCIOLOGY [Test Your Trivia Knowledge for Science]( Identify these people and help chart how they will be remembered or forgotten in history. BY KEVIN BERGER I was watching Jeopardy! not long ago when a photo of Michael Caine was revealed with the clue, âTo honor his father, this star here was knighted in his birth name, so heâs Sir Maurice Micklewhite.â [Continue reading â]( Experience the endless possibilities and deep human connections that science offers [SUBSCRIBE TODAY]( Popular This Week PSYCHOLOGY [How Mental Time Travel Can Make Us Better People]( What very old trees can teach us about life, death, and time. BY KATHERINE HARMON COURAGE [Continue reading â]( GEOSCIENCE [The Great Forgetting]( Earth is losing its memory. BY SUMMER PRAETORIUS [Continue reading â]( PSYCHOLOGY [This Drug Can Mend a Broken Heart]( A new therapy promises to take the sting out of traumatic memories. BY SHAYLA LOVE [Continue reading â]( EVOLUTION [Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body]( From our knees to our eyeballs, our bodies are full of hack solutions. BY CHIP ROWE [Continue reading â]( BEHIND THE SCENES [Shayla Love Takes Us Behind âThis Drug Can Mend a Broken Heartâ]( Shayla Love felt âa sense of deep relatabilityâ when she got on the phone with Anne Lantoine. Lantoine recently participated in a clinical trial to have her memories around a painful divorce altered, an experience Love was eager to understand. âEven though we may not have experienced something that ends up impacting us as much as it did to Anne on a day-to-day basis, we all know what thatâs like to remember something an ex-partner did to us,â she told me in [our recent conversation](. âTo just have that gross, yucky feeling go through your body.â In 2015, Lantoine left France for Canada with her college-bound daughter under the impression that her husband, along with their other two children, would be coming soon to move into a new home. She later found out he had no intention of leaving. In fact, just before their eldest child was to start undergrad in Quebec, he had secretly filed for divorce. Lantoine also discovered that, while she was away from Marseille, her husbandâs mistress was living in their house. Dealing with the resulting real-estate and immigration issues (Lantoine and her daughter lost their visa applications) on top of all the rest left Lantoine traumatized. She became much more anxious, tortured by constant nightmares. âIt was something that was really interrupting her and she was unable to move on,â Love said. When she heard about the clinical trial, which involved the use of a drug that affects the way the brain reconsolidates memory, she signed up right away. And sheâs been pleased with the result. âItâs not that she forgot what happened to her,â Love said. âItâs all still there in her mind, but the emotional reactivity has gone down a lot. It gave her back her day-to-day functioning.â Lantoine likened the no-longer-anguishing memory to a scar. She can see that she was injured, but the wound has healed. âIt both sounds really sci-fi, very Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to tinker with memories and be like, âYouâre not sad about this anymore,ââ Love said. âBut I also think that it might be a more subtle process that we could all get, based on our living through things, and remembering them, and getting over and reprocessing them.â We also discussed, among other things, psychedelic-assisted therapy (itâs one of Loveâs reporting beats), whether therapeutic drugs hinder personal growth out of hardship, and her experience with exposure therapy. âI have OCD. I did years of exposure therapy, and itâs very effective, and incredibly difficult. I would have to clear the rest of my day after sessions because theyâre so upsetting,â Love said. âYou have to white-knuckle your way through confronting these things that youâre so afraid of. Maybe if I had had the option to take a beta blocker and make it just a little better, sure, maybe I wouldâve. If the end result was the same, yeah, why not?â [Watch here](. âBrian Gallagher, associate editor [A Tribute to the Legacy of Mario Ruvio]( Early career ocean professionals are invited to apply to the newly launched [Mario Ruivo Memorial Lecture Series](, a tribute to the legacy of Professor Mario Ruivo, former Executive Secretary of the IOU-UNESCO, and Portgualâs greatest champion of ocean science. [Submit your application]( by January 9, 2023. [Apply Here]( [â]()[Evolution constructed our bodies with the biological equivalent of duct tape and lumber scraps.](â [The writer Chip Rowe compiles a punch list for the human form.]( More in Sociology [Is COVID-19 Becoming Less Polarizing?]( One question for Sara Constantino, a psychologist and public policy researcher at Northeastern University. BY BRIAN GALLAGHER [Continue reading â]( [Lessons for a Young Scientist]( A masterclass on what science needs now. BY MARTIN REES [Continue reading â]( P.S. The legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer glows a bit more brightly now that the U.S. government [nullified]( a 1954 decision, at the height of the McCarthy era, to revoke his security clearance. (The mastermind behind the atomic bomb was suspected of being a Soviet spy.) One of Oppenheimerâs other misfortunes was getting no recognition for [discovering the idea of a black hole]( because his paper was published on the day Hitler invaded Poland. Watch the trailer for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolanâs upcoming film on the physicist, [here](. Todayâs newsletter was written by Brian Gallagher BECOME A SUBSCRIBER [A Surprise Delivered to Your Doorstep]( Your mystery issue of [Nautilus magazine]( provides an experience of the endless possibilities and deep human connections that science offers. 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