What We Are Reading Today: ‘How to Change a Memory’ by Steve Ramirez

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Updated 16 July 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘How to Change a Memory’ by Steve Ramirez

As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain science, he foresees a future where we can replace our negative memories with positive ones.

In “How to Change a Memory,” Ramirez draws on his own memories—of friendship, family, loss, and recovery—to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch, edited, and even constructed from nothing.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland’

Updated 16 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland’

Authors: Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash

Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland is the only comprehensive photographic field guide to the damselflies and dragonflies of the region. 
Written by two of Britain’s foremost Dragonfly experts, this fully revised and updated fifth edition features hundreds of stunning images and identification charts covering all 58 resident, migrant and former breeding species, and seven potential vagrants.
The book focuses on the identification of both adults and larvae, highlighting the key features.
Detailed species profiles provide concise information on identification, status and trend.