I bet if you take the 18 or so minutes to watch this TED video, you will not think your time was wasted. Forensic psychologist Scott Fraser is a good storyteller and his short talk "Why eyewitnesses get it wrong" is a good reminder for us to be very careful when trusting our own memories, or the memories of our clients.
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