New Evidence Suggests That Using the Internet Might Make You Smarter, Not Rot Your Brain
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 14:56
in Health & Medicine
"The simple headline here is that Google is making us smarter," says Gary Small of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California at Los Angeles. Thank you, Dr. Small. And thank you, Internet, for not only helping me dig up this information but also juicing up my brain while I looked for it. Small recently published results showing that searching the Internet does for the brains of older folks what doing bench presses does for chest muscles. read more
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