The Optimist: Why music brings memories back

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Get unlimited access to The Post for $1 a week  Sign up for this newsletter Read online Stories that inspire.     (Illustration by Elizabeth von Oehsen/The Washington Post; iStock) Why music causes memories to flood back She didn't recognize her husband, but could still sing every word to an old Simon & Garfunkel song. By Marlene Cimons ●  Read more »   PERSPECTIVE These foods are climate-friendly and, just as important, delicious This is your sign to eat more oysters. By Tamar Haspel ●  Read more »   His PhD took 53 years. Now, he has a new philosophy on life. Nick Axten started a PhD in 1970, but put it aside when he realized the academic grind wasn't for him. He just graduated with a complete dissertation. By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff ●  Read more »   A U.S. Marine lost his dog tag in the Vietnam war. A tour group just found it. The college tour group, led by former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, came upon a Vietnamese rice paddy farmer, who had the dog tag on his keychain. By Cathy Free ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   People doubt her as a female roofer: 'We're proving them wrong every day' "Everyone questioned what I was doing," said Kimberly Santiago-Vega, who quit academia to start a roofing career and now is a roofing instructor. By Cathy Free ●  Read more »   She survived stage 4 cancer — then climbed Mount Kilimanjaro Tobi Sample's trek was both a fundraiser for a charity working in Rwanda and an opportunity to show herself how far she has come since her melanoma diagnosis. By Marisa Iati ●  Read more »   She rescues baby squirrels: 'They're quite destructive. I don't care. I love them.' "They're tiny little helpless things," said Paula Perry, who is known as the "Squirrel Lady," in Moss Point, Miss. By Sydney Page ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   An award in RBG's name will go to a star she loved: Barbra Streisand Streisand will receive the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award at the Library of Congress on April 22. By Peter Marks ●  Read more »   PERSPECTIVE See how this 'cruelty-free' circus replaced animals with holograms The Circus-Theater Roncalli uses 3D holograms instead of real animals. The cruelty-free circus was the first of its kind. By Hamza Shaban and Davide Bertuccio ●  Read more »   She's fed the hungry for decades with 'throwaway bread' she leaves on her porch "Mostly, the people who need this food are the working poor," says Shauna Devenport, who for three decades has picked up day-old bread and set it on her porch. By Cathy Free ●  Read more »     News whiz? Play our daily news quiz. Test your knowledge of current events with our new quotable game, On the Record. Play game   We think you'll like this newsletter Check out The Tech Friend for straight talk and advice to make technology better serve you and our world every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up »

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