The Brain

This semester I was enrolled in a neuroscience class, and I loved it! I am so amazed by the complexity of this lump of white and gray matter. That lump is your thoughts, personality, memories, everything you are! People don't appreciate what a miracle this organ it is. To celebrate the brain, here are some awesome facts:

• While awake, your brain generates between 10 and 23 watts of power—or enough energy to power a light bulb.
•  Neurons develop at the rate of 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy.
• The average number of thoughts humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.
• Information can be processed as slowly as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec (about 268 miles/hr).
• The human brain makes up 2% of our body weight, making it the largest brain to body size in the animal kingdom.

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