Friday, May 6, 2011 - Kearney NE
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American Robin, Dugway Recreation Area, Sinclair WY, May 1, 2011
Humid
The party is over. I'm barely halfway across Nebraska and already I'm in the soup.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Kearney NE
Kearney Walmart Supercenter Store #598, 5411 2Nd Ave, Kearney, NE 68847 - (308) 234-8448
- No level parking - no trucks - I used the adjacent Hilltop Mall lot to the south.
- Verizon cell phone service- good
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - good
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Words Get in the Way
Research shows that language suppresses visual memory, This is called verbal overshadowing and is a well-established phenomenon .... For example, in one study people watched a short videotape of a bank robbery, then spent twenty minutes doing something unrelated. Then one group spent five minutes writing down everything they could remember about the bank robber's face, while the other group did an unrelated task.