Speed
Radiolab
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How Fast Are Our Nerves?
Nerves are long and skinny. They carry electricity from one place to another, just like telegraph wires. But pain actually runs kind of slowly. He says it can be as slow as one point three miles an hour. Some neurons that only go about a mile an hour. Ironically, some of them are from the reward centers of your brain.
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