{"id":225,"date":"2007-11-10T20:11:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T00:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/11\/10\/vive-la-brain-difference\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T00:10:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T04:10:19","slug":"vive-la-brain-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/11\/10\/vive-la-brain-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Vive La (Brain) Diff\u00e9rence!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually don’t use\u00a0the New York Post as a source of scientific info.\u00a0 But this report on brain differences between men and women<\/a> is very interesting. (Hat tip to Kalilily.net<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

In her book, the Columbia professor explores the chemistry of male and female brains – and, using up-to-the-minute medical research, reinforces some cherished “Men Are From Mars” stereotypes:<\/p>\n

* Women remember better – even things that happened a really long time ago.<\/p>\n

* Men are better at map-reading. They also get turned on a lot easier.<\/p>\n

* Women thrive on talking and spending time in groups; men like to do things on their own.<\/p>\n

But all this isn’t quite as simple as it sounds. For example: A woman’s brain is, in fact, about 10 percent smaller than a man’s, even when factoring in physical size difference – but it also has a lot more going on, neuron-connection-wise.<\/p>\n

In other words, writes Legato, “women get more brain bang for the buck.”<\/p>\n

Thanks to Stone Age wiring, women also have a far greater capacity for understanding speech and body language, and have “elephantine” memories, especially when it comes to negative experiences.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Men are better than women at focusing on one task and completing it. Women’s brains excel at multi-tasking, which like many of their traits has origins in childbearing: “You’re not just going to sit and stare at your baby. You have to process a demand from your child and move on to different tasks.” In the brain, this means more connections across the corpus callosum, which divides the brain into two halves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you can see from that New York Post article’s dateline, it only took me a year to celebrate our differences with a poem:<\/p>\n

Vive La (Brain) Diff\u00e9rence!
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

We gals and guys are diff’rent—
\nYou must know that old clich\u00e9.
\nNow some scientists have proven
\nThat our wiring’s night and day.<\/p>\n

The brains of men are larger,
\nWhich shall surely make them proud.
\nWill it hurt gals in the workplace—
\nOnly big-brained folks allowed?<\/p>\n

But women’s brains have neurons
\nWhose connectors are first-rate.
\nWe are multi-tasking mavens,
\nAnd our memory’s just great!<\/p>\n

With diff’rences so striking
\n(Guys and gals, I mean to say)
\nOur commingling’s quite amazing.
\nI’m surprised we all ain’t gay.<\/p>\n

(You can find my\u00a0feminist humor here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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