Monday, February 14, 2011

Gabrielle Giffords is recovering



"NEW YORK -- Compared to a sleek new laptop, that three-pound mass of fatty tissue called the brain may not look like much. But when it's injured, it adapts and rewires its circuits in new ways."

It is good news as Ms. Gifford continues to recover. Above is an amazing analogy about the software the human body and other living beings carry. The human brain not only has extraordinary software but also has the ability to repair itself in this case rewire and move around the functions of the brain when a certain part is damaged. I understand that the bullet went through the area of her brain which performs the function of speech and now it looks the brain is re-assigning that function to another area. Beat that Bill Gates.

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