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Mar 5 2011 07:41pm

Quote (lone500 @ Feb 15 2011 08:43pm)

how many brains did they dissect to figure this out

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just found out approx size of a neuron and compared it to a stack of paper

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May 27 2011 06:19am

Want to bring this to the attention of others

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May 27 2011 09:24am

Quote (Toothfariy @ Nov 25 2010 08:18pm)

they are extremely tiny which is why we can have so many

what i find more fascinating is that without myelination (a substance that allows for faster neuro transfer) our brains would be the size of gymnasiums to be able to do the things we can do now

Nice fact.

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May 27 2011 10:01am

Quote (Jazz_Thing @ 25 Nov 2010 17:08)

Bones are much more interesting in my opinion.

The production rate of red blood cells per day is approximately 200 billion.

If you use simple math, that is 2,314,814.815 million red blood cells produced per second.

Are you fucking serious? The brain has to be the most complex thing in the human body... we don't even undersatnd it completly yet... Who cares about red blood cells... it's so trivial...

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May 27 2011 12:25pm

Quote (Act1 @ 6 Mar 2011 01:41)

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just found out approx size of a neuron and compared it to a stack of paper

i think he mean how did they find out how many nuerons are in the brain now how big a sheet of paper is

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