Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there?

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benning?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

Things people love.

T's and Cs apply.

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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on March 30th, 2018.

I'm Steve Merski. On this episode, Lonnie Sue Johnson had been

an accomplished amateur musician, a very successful professional commercial artist, and she was a

private pilot. So when neuroscientists heard about her case, they realized they could do much more

sophisticated memory testing because she had so much that she had once known.

That's Mike Lemonick. He's the opinion editor here at Scientific American after a long stint at Time magazine.

And his most recent book, his seventh, is The Perpetual Now, a story of amnesia, memory, and love,

about a woman named Lonnie Sue Johnson,

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