The Adjacent, by Christopher Priest

Yes, it's another Priest book. I can't seem to stop reading them. This one features a desolate future plagued by terrorism and war. Our protagonist, Tarent, is a photographer who's wife is killed by a new kind of weapon that obliterates anything within the area of an equilateral triangle shaped explosion. Upon returning home to London …

Brain Work

This recent article describes an experiment in which what they call a 'false memory' is implanted into the mind of a mouse. The mouse is associating the painful shocks it is given, with a different room that it had been in earlier--not the one it was in at the time of the shocks. This sounds …