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  1. “a football player’s real issue isn’t simply with repetitive concussive trauma. It is, as the concussion specialist Robert Cantu argues, with repetitive subconcussive trauma. It’s not just the handful of big hits that matter. It’s lots of little hits, too.”

    www.newyorker.com
    baetsie

  2. “And because the brain’s wiring is so densely packed, building a connectome stands as one of the most formidable data collection efforts ever concocted. About one petabyte of computer memory will be needed to store the images needed to form a picture of a one-millimeter cube of mouse brain, the scientists say. By comparison, it takes Facebook about one petabyte of data storage space to hold 40 billion photos.”

    www.nytimes.com
    baetsie

  3. “the brain is just the wrong place to look if you're interested in politics, because most political views don't originate in the individual brain, they originate in the wider culture and are absorbed and regurgitated without much thought. This is a real shame, because all of us, left or right, have a brain, and it's really quite nifty”

    neuroskeptic.blogspot.com
    baetsie

  4. “They found that participants who had bigger and more complex social networks had larger amygdala volumes.”

    www.nature.com
    missrogue

  5. ““This shows that our brain has a complex sensitivity to our own speech that helps us distinguish between our vocalizations and those of others, and makes sure that what we say is actually what we meant to say,” Flinker says.”

    www.futurity.org
    admelfo

  6. “solv­ing cross­word puz­zles engages only a small por­tion of the brain: mostly some lan­guage and mem­ory retrieval areas. What about the rest of the brain? If you want a sharper brain, you need to exer­cise your whole brain, not just one or two func­tions. This means that you need to find a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent exer­cises or habits that will engage dif­fer­ent brain functions.”

    www.sharpbrains.com
    baetsie

  7. “Aristotle couldn't believe that the brain, an inert grey mass, could have anything to do with thought; he assumed that the heart, hot and pulsing, must be the source of cognition, and that the brain's function was simply to cool the blood.”

    www.edge.org
    baetsie