Yesterday, I was introduced to a musical group, Pink Martini, by the CBS Sunday Morning show. The group has been around for many years, and is made up of a few Americans who sing and play in a style reminiscent of the 50's - the songs have a melody, the lyrics are crisp and clear.

Science fiction stories frequently have a person don a helmet or something and have foreign memories induced.

Now, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF.gov article), Japanese and American researchers have demonstrated using special MRI's in reverse to "implant" knowedge into a person's brain. The article suggests "it may be possible ... to learn to play a piano ... or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort."

Instead of merely recording the activity of a brain, apparently they repeatedly "tickled" small areas of one person's brain in the same pattern that someone else has, who has had some small visual training. After having this done, the subjects were also trained. This happened with or without the subjects knowing ahead of time what was being trained, and with no active participation of subject. 

Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services: 

I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone.