Sunday, 26 May 2019

Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex? - Issue 72: Quandary - Nautilus

Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex? - Issue 72: Quandary - Nautilus

There’s a method to the madness of the teenage brain. In the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, a few hours east of San Francisco, are the Moaning Caverns, a cave system that begins, after a narrow, twisting descent of 30-some feet, with an abrupt 180-foot drop. The Park Service has found ancient human skeletons at the bottom of the drop. Native Americans living there at the time didn’t make human sacrifices. Instead, these explorers took one step too far in the gloom. The skeletons belonged to adolescents.

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