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The Dodo and the Brain

There was a time where people thought that you had all the neurons you were ever going to have when you were born. But we now know that that's not true and your brain can still be very plastic. Sponge theory is next and that's when there's really gone the way of the dodo, right? They used to think that kids just absorbed everything like sponges.

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