The Teenage Brain (Part 2)

Last week I shared a story of a time I picked up a wild python in an African jungle because I didn’t yet have a fully developed Prefrontal Cortex. You can read it HERE. In that email we talked about the neuroscience of teenagers and risk. Today, let’s take it a step further, and discuss […]
The Teenage Brain (aka “That time I picked up a wild python in an African jungle…”)

I shouldn’t have been surprised that it was hot. It was an African jungle, after all. The trail was about a foot wide and muddy. It followed alongside a swiftly flowing creek that we occasionally had to cross (via “bridges” made of fallen trees). I saw a thin green snake (about 5 feet long) darting […]