Can this author outwrite ChatGPT?

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The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one about annihilation; it also includes the stories of those who survived the eruption and went on to rebuild their lives.” [// Atlas Obscura »]( [/science] [How the brain decides what to remember | Wired]( [How the brain decides what to remember]( “By studying electrical patterns in the brain, György Buzsáki seeks to understand how our experiences are represented and saved as memories. New studies from his lab and others have suggested that the brain tags experiences worth remembering by repeatedly sending out sudden and powerful high-frequency brain waves. Known as ‘sharp wave ripples,’ these waves, kicked up by the firing of many thousands of neurons within milliseconds of one another, are ‘like a fireworks show in the brain,’ said Wannan Yang, a doctoral student in Buzsáki’s lab who led the new work.” [// Wired »]( [/hustle] [StackSocial - Get it together, with help from an app, of course | [Partner] ]( [Get it together, with help from an app, of course]( On a scale of one to ten, how organized is your team? Oof … That bad, huh? Looks like you need a solid project manager in your corner. And no, we’re not talking about some shoddy spreadsheet that’s doing way more than it was invented for. We’re talking about the big leagues, Microsoft Project, aka Project Manager #1. It’s the premier software for tracking timelines, budgets, and what-if scenarios (because uh-ohs do happen, IRL). 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