Tag: brain

  • Are We Becoming Nature’s Very Own Cyborgs?

    Yeah, your your mom and dad deserve some credit for how much information your brain can jam in, retain and recall — and how fast.  The foundation of our ability to process information is indeed genetic. Thankfully for our children, though, despite what they’ve inherited from us, they can do a great deal to build more capacity and brain speed for themselves. Eat…

  • 15 Big Ways The Internet is Changing Our Brains

      Not sure I agree with all of this — or with Nicholas Carr, for that matter — but a new study from Online College, much of it very obvious, raises good questions about the effect of the interwebs on our brains… (via Ray Kurzweil):  The Internet is our external hard drive Children are learning differently We hardly…