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Content from a sharable broadcast message from Al Filreis, Penn professor: Al Filreis http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis ModPo is a free, open, non-credit course on modern and contemporary U.S. poetry. It has been hosted since 2012 by the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. The new 10-week session opens on September 10. To enroll, simply go here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo For those who register, the site will be open all year, so if you cannot finish going through the week-by-week syllabus in the ten weeks between mid-September and mid-November, you can always go back and finish any time later. ModPo hosts weekly live interactive webcasts, and there are meet-ups organized in cities around the world as well as virtual discussion groups arranged around a wide range of interests and affinities. Each of the ModPo TAs hosts weekly office hours. ModPo is fully described—with an FAQ—here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo This is the fifth year...

"The Brain That Couldn't Remember" by Luke Dittrich The New York Times Sunday Magazine 03 August 2016 Article This article is adapted from “Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets” by Luke Dittrich, to be published by Random House on Aug. 9. Here is the Annese et al. 2014 paper discussed in the feature story: Annese et al. (2014)