The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.

There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant percentages, not on some absolute value. That's one of the reasons behavioral scientists have to be really good statisticians.

A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.