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WORDS ON A WIRE: Brain Plasticity

  Host Daniel Chacón reflects on the remarkable abilities of our brain to continue to develop throughout our lives.  Then he talks about the squirt fish, whose brain gradually gets eaten away once it has settled on a permanent home.  The squirt fish serves as an important metaphor as to why we must keep our imaginations active...or else we may eat our own brains like the squirt fish!

Aired May 29, 2016

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