Memory isn’t what it was
The impression that in the good old days the skies were bluer, the sun was much warmer and the food was much tastier may be a necessary consequence of the processes of human memory. This is suggested by some simple experiments that have been carried out by a team of technologists in New York who have recently described their work in the Journal of the Optical Society of America.
They shone a coloured light onto a screen for 5 seconds, and after a lapse of 5 more seconds subjects had to adjust the controls…
