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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

4916.718 - 4942.002 Venki Ramakrishnan

Another possibility is that as we get older, short-term memory is one of the things to go. And maybe the creative act requires holding disparate facts in your head in an attempt to synthesize some new thing. And if we're not able to hold them while we're trying to synthesize it, that makes creativity harder. So there are a number of explanations.

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