Wait a second – videogames can be good for your kids?!

A recent study conducted in Scotland⁹ found that brain games boosted students’ math performance and improved their concentration and behavior.

Staying up until 4 A.M. to cram for that test you should’ve been studying for days ago is almost a rite of passage for high school and college students. But new evidence shows that sleep may be as important as study. "…(Research) suggests that if you reviewed your notes thoroughly until you were tired and then slept, you'd achieve as much learning as if you'd pulled an all-nighter repeating your review of the material,"

• The approximate weight of a human brain is three pounds⁸
• Skin weighs twice as much as the brain
• The average brain has enough energy to power a 10-watt light bulb
• The brain is made up of approximately 60% white matter and 40% grey matter
• The brain contains about 100 billion neurons

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You’ve heard the phrase “Sleep on it”?

While we sleep – especially during the REM (rapid eye movement) phase – our brain processes information it took in during the day but couldn’t crunch at the time.