I was scanning through educational articles this evening (because I’m a complete nerd) and found these interesting brain facts. Use them as you wish. But remember, with great knowledge comes great responsibility.
- Billions of bits of information pass through your brain every second of your life.
- Messages in your brain travel through trillions of neural connections at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour.
- Your brain generates 25 watts of power while you’re awake–enough to power a light bulb.
- Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy, but makes up only 2% of your body’s weight.
- The brain of a 6-month old is already 1/2 its adult weight.
- The brain of a 5 year old is already 9/10 its adult weight.
- Human brains are getting bigger–on average about 1/2 a pound heavier than they were just 100 years ago.
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Mrs. Chili // Jan 5, 2008 at 9:23 am
Yeah, well, for all of that, how come most people don’t USE theirs?!
Good question.
2 B // Jan 5, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Wondra- What the hell, dude… Did you have Emma stuck there with you some how??
3 Lyrical Fool // Jan 7, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Do we still use 10% of it?
And Mrs. Chili beat me to the obvious.
Yea LF (I have no idea how I came up with “LC” in my previous replies),
I had a stat like that in what I was reading as well, but it varied between 5% and 20% depending on which scientist you talked to. We here at Chriswondra.com are sticklers for accuracy (cough, cough, snicker . . .) and so didn’t find that little nugget worthy of mention here.
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