Despite arriving in Europe over a millenium ago, the fork, a modern culinary mainstay, did not catch on for centuries. What ...

O n the beloved Starz series Outlander, Charles Vandervaart, 24, plays a Revolutionary War soldier who rides horses, brandishes a sword, and runs in slow motion toward the camera.

A subset of that memory will be secured in long-term storage, accessible for future use. Many factors during and after the creation of a memory influence what (and how much) gets preserved.