Some people think of the glass as half empty.
I think of the glass as too big. The Times of London reports a small engraved stone could hold the key to uncovering a literate society that flourished and disappeared in what are today the deserts of Central Asia. The discovery, which could lead to a reappraisal of the ancient world, was made last year at a ruined site near Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, where scholars have been excavating for years. Here resides the British False Memory Society focusing on the phenomenon in which a person is convinced a memory is true when it is not. False memory was first diagnosed more than 100 years ago.