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    From conception to birth, guess how many neurons are created in a baby's brain per second.

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    Image © 2009, Paul Pomeroy. All rights reserved.

    It's hard to believe, but on average, every second of every day, for 280 days, the baby's brain increases in size by an additional 4,100 neurons. (At birth a baby's brain has somewhere in the vicinity of 100 billion neurons.)

    And how about the connections between all those neurons? The number of connections a neuron makes (i.e., from that neuron to other neurons) varies greatly depending on the type of neuron and its location but a low estimate of the average is 1,000. That means that, again on average, more than 4,100,000 new neuron-to-neuron connections are formed in the developing brain every second, non-stop, for 280 days.

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    Music is by Mose Allison on his new The Way Of The World.

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    Oh a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park / Or the lion hunter In the jungle dark

    Or the Chinese dentist or the British Queen / They all fit together In the same machine

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device

    Oh a whirling dervish and a dancing bear / Or a Ginger Rogers and a Fred Astaire

    Or a teenage rocker or the girls in France / Yes, we all are partners in this cosmic dance

    Nice, nice, very nice
    Nice, nice, very nice
    So many people in the same device
    _________________
    From "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

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