We live in an era of compare and contrast. Hawaii is always listed in the Top 10 Beaches in the US. We rank football, basketball, even volleyball teams.
American’s have a Top 10 List for everything, including the ridiculous (ala David Letterman’s Top 10). Music. Movies. Even presidential candidates number sufficiently to have a Top 10 list.
We love to compare what we have with what others have. In an age where bigger is better by default, my brain is bigger than your brain.
If you’re a woman. A man’s brain, on average, is larger than a woman’s brain.
Hawaii’s Bishop Museum has a brain exhibit, creatively titled BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head. Bringing sophisticated technology to show and tell, BRAIN shows 3 dimensional reproductions of the inner workings of the brain, how it processes information, and still unsolved mysteries.
Unsolved brain mysteries? I want a list.
There must be plenty of brain mysteries. Such as why the Korean woman who lives next door can’t park her SUV straight? The exhibit points out that a person’s brain is really undergoing a constant electrical brainstorm of thoughts and sensations. They wouldn’t say that if they saw my wife eating dinner at Hy’s Steak House.
The journey through the BRAIN exhibit divulges the secrets of sleep and dreams, disease and mental illnesses, their causes and cures. Nowhere in the exhibit is there information about how teenagers can continue to function without a brain.
That must be one of those unsolved brain mysteries.
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