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Why Your Brain Needs Exercise The evolutionary history of humans explains why physical activity is important for brain health

'Why your brain needs exercise' [via Scientific American, Jan 1, 2020] 🧪🧠🏃‍♂️🏊‍♂️🚴‍♀️

"...the results clearly indicated that #exercise can benefit the brain’s #hip­po­camp­us and its cognitive functions."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

#brain #neurogenesis #health #cognition #growth #neurons

If civil war breaks out, meet me at the library.

We need to get back to reading and critical thinking Because 2024 feels different from 2016.

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.

Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here’s Why Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and apples have never tasted so good

As someone who grew up before the Honeycrisp changed the game, I think it's hard for younger folks to understand just how much the apple was kind of a garbage-tier fruit back in the day. It's so much better now. Article by @laurahelmuth.bsky.social:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...

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