365 Awesome! » synapses http://www.365awesome.com awesome - all year long Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:04:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Your brain http://www.365awesome.com/2010/03/your-brain/ http://www.365awesome.com/2010/03/your-brain/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:00:23 +0000 michele http://www.365awesome.com/?p=303

Your amazing brain

Did you know your brain is pretty awesome? It’s actually so awesome it’s hard to fathom.

  • 100 billion = the number of neurons in your brain
  • 1,000 to 10,000 = the number of synapses for each neuron in your brain
  • 100,000 = the number of miles of blood vessels in your brain

And that’s just part of the hardware.

Your brain controls everything in your body, without you even having to think about it. And on top of that, 60,000 thoughts run through your mind each and every day with messages traveling between neurons in just one thousandth of a second.

WOW. Learn more about our awesome brains here and here.

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