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concentration, cognitive skills, and memory. The human brain weighs about three pounds., but if all the water were squeezed out of it, its weigh be only about ten ounces.

• You do have a left and right brain. That’s because it’s divided into two almost symmetrical, but not identical, hemispheres which are connected by a nerve bundle called the corpus callosum.

• The brain will begin to lose consciousness after about ten seconds without oxygen and will die of oxygen starvation after about five minutes.

• The brain is cross-wired. The left side controls muscles on the body’s right side; the right side of the brain controls the muscles of the left side. However, it’s only a myth that artistic people rely more on their right brain, and that analytical people are more left-brained.

• The human brain can generate about 23 watts of electrical energy, enough to power a lightbulb. • The human brain will triple in size in the first year of life, which is why early childhood development is so critical during this time. It continues to grow until about the age of 18. After middle age, the brain decreases in physical size as time passes. • The size of a brain does not translate to intellect. There is no evidence that a larger brain is any smarter than a smaller brain. • In general, men’s brains are ten percent larger than women’s, even after taking into account larger body size. However, the hippocampus, which is the part of the brain linked to memory, is typically larger in women. • The average human brain, at 3.3 pounds, is about 1/50th of total body weight. • Human brain tissue is soft and squishy, with a consistency of gelatin or tofu. ANIMAL BRAINS

• By comparison, a chimpanzee’s brain is about 1/150th of body weight, and the gorilla’s is 1/500th. • Similarly, elephants can have brains as huge as 13 lbs. representing 1/1,000th its body weight, while a whale’s 19-lb. brain represents 1/10,000th of its body weight. • Small birds have a larger brain-to-body ratio than man with the brain accounting for 1/12th of the body weight. • Still, the human brain is the largest brain of all vertebrates relative to body size.

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There are about one hundred billion neurons in by a typical brain. They’re able to communicate with other neurons through chemical or electrical signals called synapses. A piece of brain tissue the size of a grain of sand contains 100,000 neurons and one billion synapses, all communicating with each other. Still, the total weight of the neurons in a human brain account for only ten percent of the brain's weight.

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chemicals or a burial vault. The Green Burial Council (GreenBurialCouncil.org, 888-966-3330) has a state listing of cemetery operators who accommodate green burials, as well as funeral professionals who provide the services. Anatomical Donation If you’d like to eliminate your cremation/burial costs all together, as well as help advance medical research, you and your husband should consider donating your bodies to science. This option won’t cost you a cent, however, some programs may charge a small fee to transport your remains to their facility. After using your body for medical research projects, anatomy lessons and surgical practice, your remains will be cremated and your ashes will be buried or scattered in a local cemetery or returned to your family, usually within a year. To locate accredited university medical school body donation programs in your state, see the University of Florida’s U.S. program directory at Anatbd.acb.med.ufl. edu/usprograms, or call the whole-body donation referral service during business hours at 800-727-0700. ***

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attention span, diminishes the ability to learn, short-circuits short-term memory, and causes a decline in mental performance.

• A psychologist tried some practical experiments on the hypothalamus. When stimulated, the hypothalamus gives rise to a powerful pleasurable sensation. He connected a small electrode to this “pleasure center” in a rat’s brain, arranged so that the rat could stimulate itself. That rat stimulated its hypothalamus up to 8,000 times an hour for hours or days at a time. The rat favored this over the exclusion of all else, even food, sex and sleep. • It’s known as “brain freeze” or an “ice cream headache.” The official term is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia” which means “nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion,” a cluster of nerve cells in the parasympathetic nervous system. That’s the system responsible for regulating bodily functions that happen when the body is at rest including storing energy, digestion, secretion, slowing heart rate, etc. • When you eat that slushie or ice cream cone, the temperature at the back of the throat changes very quickly. Two important arteries—the internal carotid artery, which brings blood into the brain, and the anterior cerebral artery, which is where brain tissue starts—are also located there. The brain likes to remain in a state of status quo. That includes its internal thermostat. So when those arteries get cold, they contract. The brain interprets that sensation as pain, and a quick but nasty headache results. Taking sips of coffee or warm water helps bring relief. □

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ings on her Social Security record, would also get she get $500 added to her Social Security record? And what about women who work full $1,500 per month. That’s good news for Wilma. She time but then also come home and do lots of work gets her own Social Security check. But for the two YOUR around the house? Shouldn’t they get some kind of of them as a married couple, it’s bad news. Fred gets $1,500 per month and Wilma gets $1,500 per Social Security credit for the housework they do? SOCIAL SECURITY And for that matter, what about a man who month, giving them combined benefits of $3,000 works full time but comes home and watches the per month. But that compares to $4,500 in total benby Tom Margenau kids, does some laundry, cooks a meal or does the efits they’d be due under the current system. Also, under an “earnings sharing” arrangedishes? Should he get Social Security credits for ment, things really don’t work out for Wilma after the housework he does? I hope you see where I’m going with this. Fred dies. Under the current system, Wilma the Your proposal, although well-intentioned, would be widow would get her spousal benefit of $1,500 per extremely difficult to implement and administer. month bumped up to Fred’s $3,000 rate. But with To say nothing of all the extra costs that would be “earnings sharing,” where they each end up with added to an already overburdened Social Security identical monthly benefits of $1,500 per month, there is nothing extra to bump up to -- so Wilma system. People frequently write to me with an idea That’s why when ideas like yours were would get no widow’s benefits. to change Social Security law in some way that they kicked around in the past, many Social Security Those of you who think “earnings sharing” think is clever and unique. But I usually must tell reformers came up with what they thought was a might be a good idea should remember that old them that their proposal has been considered in better solution. It was called “earnings sharing.” saying: “Be careful what you wish for!” the past. After all, Social Security has been around In a nutshell, that would mean that the * * * for 80 years now, and for all of those eight decades, earnings a married couple have during the courseADVERTISING If you have a Social Security question, Tom MarPROOF genau has a book with all the answers. It’s called “Social people have been coming up with plans that they of their marriage would be shared for Social NOW!! Se- Changes Final DUE: 5:00 p.m.. Security -Simple and Smart.” You can find the book at think would improve the system. And lots of times, curity purposes. So, for example, if husband Fred Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours those plans don’t work out under closer scrutiny. made $100,000 per year and wife Wilma was a stay- www.creators.com/books. Or look for it on Amazon or Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. other book outlets. To find out more about Tom MarHere is an example of what I’m talking about. at-home mom with no outside earnings, Office: $50,000 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 would be put on Fred’s Social Security record and genau and to read past columns and see features from Q: I have been a stay-at-home mom $50,000 would be put on Wilma’s Social Security re- other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. Hawk’s Landing and housewife for the past 40 years. Other cord. than a few years when I worked before I got • 1/8th page • June 6, 2021 And then let’s look at their neighbors, Bar- COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM married, I’ve never paid into Social Security. ney and Betty. If Barney made $100,000 per year So, I am due no benefits on my own record. and Betty also worked outside the home and made I will only be due benefits on my husband’s $50,000 per year, for a total combined income of Yes! record. I don’t think that’s fair. I should get $150,000, $75,000 would be placed in each of their some kind of Social Security credit for all the Social Security accounts. work I’ve done as a wife, mother and home- On the surface, this might sound like a maker. I think a certain amount of money -- good idea to some. But one big reason this plan maybe $1,000 per month -- should be added never went anywhere is because of the negative to the Social Security record of all women who impact this plan would have on a married couple’s choose to stay home and make a career as a potential Social Security benefits. Only 30 Minutes homemaker. To show you what I mean, let’s go back to Away! Fred and Wilma. Fred was making $100,000 per A: Actually, that’s an idea that’s been year and Wilma had no Social Security covered Make a tossed around many times in the past. Not quite the earnings. Under the current Social Security sysDay of it! GEOGRAPHY: is the second way you propose. But something 1.similar. It’sWhat usutem, because he has fairly high earnings, Fred Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. island inwhat the Hawaiian ally called “earnings sharing.” I’ll largest explain thatIslands?would probably end up with a pretty high monthly COME GOLFING at Hawk’s Landing! 2. TELEVISION: is in a minute. 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