What drove the transformation of Britain’s population, economy and environment so that by 1819 it was arguably the most rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society in the world?

Echoing the Somerset proverb quoted by John Ray, we can state that if we have only one celestial body, that is too few objects to study celestial dynamics. A system with two bodies, as we saw in the previous chapter, contains interesting physics. But what about a three-body system? We might conclude, considering the possible complexity of such a system, that it contains too many objects to be tractable.

Sir James Jeans Always says what he means; He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious. E. Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956) Punch, vol. 196, issue 5100, p. 39 [1939 Jan 11]

Section 10.1 discusses patients with aMCI. These patients have long-term memory deficits due to atrophy of medial temporal lobe regions. Within a few years of being diagnosed with aMCI, about half of these individuals are diagnosed with AD, the topic of Section 10.2. Section 10.3 focuses on patients with mTBI, who typically perform normally on working memory tasks but have increased fMRI activity within the lateral prefrontal cortex and the parietal cortex. In Section 10.4, patients with mTLE are considered. These patients can elect to have a region in their medial temporal lobe removed to reduce the frequency of their seizures. Section 10.5 discusses patients with TGA; these patients have a sudden onset of amnesia that lasts for less than 24 hours and is caused by a small temporary lesion to a specific subregion of the hippocampus.

I’m trying to relax, but it’s hard. Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952–2023) New York Times interview, 2017 Apr 22

How, given the murder of those demanding a more representative political system at Peterloo in 1819, did more Britons, at home and in the colonies, get to vote by 1885?

Section 9.1 reviews the brain regions that have been associated with attention, which include sensory processing regions in addition to lateral prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex control regions. These regions are similar to the regions that have been associated with working memory and long-term memory. In Section 9.2, the brain regions associated with imagery are reviewed, which also include sensory processing regions, the lateral prefrontal cortex, and the parietal cortex, similarly to working memory. Section 9.3 details the regions of the brain associated with language processing, which include the left inferior lateral prefrontal cortex and the left posterior lateral temporal cortex; these regions are of relevance to multiple types of memory. Section 9.4 considers brain regions associated with emotion and their role in memory. Section 9.5 touches on a relatively new line of research that considers the role of memory in decision-making.

How did religious and political debates that had only recently generated violent conflicts become relatively peaceably conducted in growing numbers of publications and clubs?

How did social democracy seed new forms of politics that came of age in the global revolts of 1968, exposing its contradictions and compromised foundations, and hastening its demise after 1976?