Word: engram
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Every once in a while, a packaging idea comes along that changes a food category. Pringles proved you could stack potato chips in a can. Heinz showed you could sell an upside-down ketchup bottle. Now Katie Luber and Sara Engram are hoping they've hit on a paradigm shift for the spice industry: single-use, premeasured packets that reflect how cooks actually use seasonings--one teaspoon at a time...
...Players: Kerry Collins, O. J. McDuffie, Bobby Engram, Courtney Brown, LaVar Arrington, Richie Anderson, Kyle Brady, Curtis Enis, Steve Wiesniewski...
...Maybe, Gould speculates, the newly generated hippocampal neurons are especially agile in forming connections with one another. As in the canaries, the new cells would readily join hands to encode a new memory. Then, when they were no longer needed, they would be flushed from the system, and the engram would be transferred elsewhere for safekeeping...
This hidden source, according to its discoverer, science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, is the "engram," "a moment of 'unconsciousness' containing physical pain or painful emotion." during this moment of "unconsciousness" the individual's "reactive mind" records all nearby utterances. No matter what their import, the "moronic" reactive mind misconstrues the words to be commands, and they influence the individual's later behavior like post-hypnotic suggestions...
...thought of the womb, because nobody ever asked. Thanks to dianeties, we learn; "it is very noisy in the womb . . . The womb is wet, uncomfortable, and unprotected." All in all, the first nine months are the hardest. "Mama sneezes, baby gets knocked 'unconscious.' Papa hits Mama, baby gets an engram. Junior bounces on Mama's lap, baby gets an engram. And so it goes." Besides these normal hazards, all Hubbard's patients have a pre-natal history of beatings by the father and attempted abortions by the mother. Small wonder that the child emerges punchy...