{"id":33179,"date":"2011-03-27T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-valley-of-the-teenagers-my-new-brain-column-for-discover-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:44:45","slug":"the-valley-of-the-teenagers-my-new-brain-column-for-discover-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-valley-of-the-teenagers-my-new-brain-column-for-discover-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"The Valley of the Teenagers: My new brain column for Discover | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a5b1a_freaksandgeeks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4211\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a5b1a_freaksandgeeks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>When you&rsquo;re a teenager, it seems like nobody understands you. And once you&rsquo;re finished being a teenager and get to observe them as an adult, you have to wonder what on Earth is going through their heads. In my<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2011\/mar\/24-the-brain-the-trouble-with-teens\"> new column for <em>Discover<\/em><\/a>, I gingerly step into the teenage mind, exploring what neuroscientists are learning about how their brains work. Teenagers may do things that seem crazy and\/or stupid, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean they themselves are crazy or stupid. The teen years turn out to be a unique phase of mental life, when we tally up the rewards and costs of our choices with a kind of math that you won&rsquo;t find in the heads of children or grownups.&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2011\/mar\/24-the-brain-the-trouble-with-teens\">Check it out.<\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/m11j8_aiZ-_-ixDXNX9sWvhswfE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a5b1a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/m11j8_aiZ-_-ixDXNX9sWvhswfE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a5b1a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a5b1a_0Vgf3OWShas\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a5b1a_SQGA3A_qh0I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&rsquo;re a teenager, it seems like nobody understands you. And once you&rsquo;re finished being a teenager and get to observe them as an adult, you have to wonder what on Earth is going through their heads. In my new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-valley-of-the-teenagers-my-new-brain-column-for-discover-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}