To remember or not could be up to pot

TheStar.com - Scientists awed by `human calendar'

Imagine being able to remember absolutely everything you've ever done. That's what this woman, the 'human calendar', can do. You give her a date, any date, and she can tell you what she was doing and what the weather was like for that day. Crazy huh? That's a skill that could definitely come in handy, but it's almost an information overload. They're going to test her in a brain scanner to see what part of her brain is responsible for this unusual talent. As you can imagine, she sometimes feels overloaded by her memory. This makes me think of another study that came out recently giving conclusive proof that a potheads' memory gets worse the more years he/she smokes regularly. That's really bad news for potheads, but it could be good news for this woman. Although, the type of memory this woman is really good at storing in her brain is different than what this new study found. This marijuana study looked mostly at people's abilities to memorize something they just read. It's more like the type of memory this student has developed. This 15-year-old just won a prize for memorizing and reciting close to 9000 digits of Pi. Talk about a useless fact to put to memory! Pi is one of those numbers that goes on infinitely. It's stored in every calculator. Why someone would put so much effort into memorizing that many digits of Pi is beyond me. He won bragging rights, that's true. And it is good to exercise your brain, but why Pi? Maybe he should chill out and smoke a joint when he grows up to see if he can be inspired to find a better, more useful way to put that memory of his to good use... Just as long as he doesn't let all his efforts go up in smoke by becoming a regular toker.