“Scientists do lots of crazy things.”
MIT neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher wanted to show her students where all the regions of the brain were located.
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So she decided to SHAVE HER ENTIRE HEAD. For science, of course.
"It was fun. It grows back. Who cares?" Kanwisher told BuzzFeed.
"Science is an adventure. Shaving your head is kind of an adventure. To be an effective science teacher, you need to have a theatrical bent," she added.
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She began her video lesson by talking about the cortex (the part of the brain we use to hear, move, and think with).
"The human brain is not a general purpose machine, but instead has lots of different parts, each solving a very specific problem. So, you can be very good at finding your way but just terrible at face recognition, or the other way around, because these are independent, separate parts of the mind and brain," she said.
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Grad student Rosa Lafer-Souza drew parts of the brain in different colors to teach students about its functions, like this red region.
"Scientists do lots of crazy things," Kanwisher said.
"I see this as not just a way to find particular parts of the brain, it’s a way to discover basic components of the human mind. It’s a way of discovering who we are as thinkers. What kinds of minds do we have?" she added.
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