The Human Brain

I read a really interesting article about the Human Brain last week. I'm always so fascinated by how we work and what's happening in the proverbial grey matter. An aside, a few years back I was accepted into a PhD program at Baylor in Neuroscience, and I was really excited about it... I really didn't want to change career paths in the middle of life to something so incredibly different than what I do now.... so, sad to say, I ultimately decided against going back to school for too many years... (but I still love to read about it).

In Discover Magazine's May 2009 issue, Carl Zimmer wrote a fascinating article about the nature of "twin hemispheres in the brain." You can read the article in its entirety here: The Brain, by Carl Zimmer.

I won't go into too much detail, but it really delves into right-brained vs. left-brained people, and how the two halves work together. Symmetry of the human body (2 eyes, ears, arms, legs...) although we aren't perfectly symetrical (heart on left, appendix on right...) And the two halves of the brain work together to make us who we are.

My wife was bored to tears by the end of the first sentence of this post... but I know she loves the fact that I love this stuff... hope you do too.