Here today, gone today

Is there a memory you’d rather not remember? A bad prom? Left at the altar? Did you accidentally fall into a hot dog cart, only to then be chased by a pack of feral dogs in heat?

Prepare to remember them one last time.

Science, that wonderful friend of the lonely, is cooking up a process that will reportedly remove painful memories, permanently. That’s right, el finito. As per the norm, scientists discovered that after removing a protein from the brains of mice, the little squeakers had trouble remembering things like fear.

This could potentially be bad for us. Better start making the test mice dumb, too, scientists.

It’s the best of everything: now we can be like Jim Carrey without having approximately 175 teeth in our mouths.