As if.
Previously researchers believed that the brain did not grow any new cells after childhood, which is why it is so much harder for adults to pick up new skills or learn a foreign language.It's a new study reported on Telegraph.co.uk, News Science section.
More recent studies suggested that if specific zones of the brain were hyperstimulated then new cells could form, as was proven in London black cab drivers studying The Knowledge who were found to have an increased number of neurons in areas linked to mapping.
If you say so.
I happen to be an expert on this on account of I have one of those things ... er ... what were we talking about again? Brain! That's it. I got a brain. The graphic they used over there is spiffy and all electrical looking and everything, but frankly they just pulled a stock graphic out of their butt. They didn't even make it.
Sure. Old people produce new brain cells but the brain cells they make are old. Their brain-cell DNA template is old and it cranks out old copies. Like this. Here's the difference between teen brains and the old geezer brains like mine.
neurons of teens
elderly neurons.
And don't even argue with me or I'll hit you with this ... with this ... something hard.
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The older neurons are for remembering where you put your glasses.
An old brain, a new brain,
They say such things and they do such things
With an old brain, a new brain,
I'm tossing them both out the door.
To be sung to the tune of "The Bowery," which goes like this:
The Bowery, The Bowery,
They say such things and they do such things
On The Bowery, The Bowery,
I'll never go there anymore.
And if you don't know what The Bowery is (was) your brain is too darned new!
I saw this yesterday:
Helpless
A duck in a parking lot
All curled up asleep.
Why so moving?
It will keep. It will keep.
Old brains. Old bodies. They both suck.
Three days ago, the day we were talking about Trump and the military on the border, I pulled a muscle in my lower back. That's nothing unusual, it's happened before, it's probably happened to most of us, but not in several years for me.
This time was different. For a day and a half it hurt as bad or worse than anything has ever hurt me. I would literally scream if I moved the wrong way. Got to the point I was seriously considering calling an ambulance. Then, about 36 hours later, thanks in part to a high dose of anti-inflammatories, it got much better.
And no, I'm not going to tell you what I was doing when it happened.
Ricpic at 8:47, so sweet.
When Molly the sheep was cloned she started out at the age of her clone source.
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