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  2. Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia

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    One account stated that Clarke's laws were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author's assertions. [2] All three laws appear in Clarke's essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", first published in Profiles of the Future (1962); [3] however, they were not all published at the same time.

  3. Edmund Blair Bolles - Wikipedia

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    not to be confused with journalist E. Blair Bolles (1912–1990). Edmund Blair Bolles (born 1942) is an American humanist and author. Bolles argues that human free will and originality are real and natural, deriving from animal memory systems.

  4. Fantasy-prone personality - Wikipedia

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    People who, at a young age, were involved in creative fantasy activities like piano, ballet, and drawing are more likely to obtain a fantasy prone personality. [ citation needed ] Acting is also a way for children to identify as different people and characters which can make the child prone to fantasy-like dreams as they grow up. [ 10 ]

  5. Six Ways in Which the Age Discrimination Act Protects Older ...

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    Older workers Huge job losses have affected everyone, but older workers are struggling to get back on their feet as they search for work in the digital age. Six Ways in Which the Age ...

  6. Imagination inflation - Wikipedia

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    Imagination inflation is a type of memory distortion that occurs when imagining an event that never happened increases confidence in the memory of the event. [ 1 ] Several factors have been demonstrated to increase the imagination inflation effect.

  7. Administration on Aging - Wikipedia

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    The Administration on Aging (AoA) is an agency within the Administration for Community Living of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.AoA works to ensure that older Americans can stay independent in their communities, mostly by awarding grants to States, Native American tribal organizations, and local communities to support programs authorized by Congress in the Older ...

  8. Imagination - Wikipedia

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    Olin Levi Warner, Imagination (1896). Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Imagination is the production of sensations, feelings and thoughts informing oneself. [1] These experiences can be re-creations of past experiences, such as vivid memories with imagined changes, or completely invented and possibly fantastic ...

  9. Memory and aging - Wikipedia

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    The third reason is the "memory self-efficacy," which indicates that older people do not have confidence in their own memory performances, leading to poor consequences. [17] It is known that patients with Alzheimer's disease and patients with semantic dementia both exhibit difficulty in tasks that involve picture naming and category fluency.