Friday, January 2, 2015

News Flash on CNN: Crafting benefits your brain!!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/25/health/brain-crafting-benefits/


Ventral view of the brain knitted by child psychiatrist, Karen Norberg from Scientificamerican.com. (housed at Boston's Museum of Science).

image from Sciencedaily.com
The left image is you brain reading, the right your brain while searching  the internet.  Reading all those other blogposts is healthy!

But then YOU knew that didn't you... So never think of it as wasting time. You are actually helping your brain and the article suggests, even fighting aging.   Cheers CM

8 comments:

  1. Love this! (Especially the knitted brain!)
    But we knew this! :)
    Happy New Year!

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  2. They said crafting was like meditating as it takes you away from your cares to a different plane.... but we knew that. C

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  3. LOL for the knitted brain! It actually looks great, like a modern piece of art :-). Yes, we bloggers and blog readers know, don't we :-).

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  4. The artist said it took her a year to complete it, design and construct (while working as a Dr) and yes we knew this! :) CM

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  5. We always knew that being crafty was more astute than being artless.

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  6. We Knew that! Right brain Rocks. CM

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  8. Hi to the above blogger, only question marks came through in paragraphs with punctuation so I deleted it.Best case it was a problem with translation> Thanks CM

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