• Question: is science good for your brain

    Asked by to Kevin on 19 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Kevin O'Dell answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      Anything that makes you think is good for your brain. So thinking about how things work, what questions you might ask, what experiments you might do, what a set of data means and any kind of problem solving is a good thing and will exercise your brain.

      I’m much less convinced that simply remembering things, even if it’s about science, is a useful thing to do.

      To give a science example. I would argue that simply being able to recite all the elements in the periodic table in order is not a useful thing to do. However, being provided with an image of of the periodic table and then explaining what the pattern of elements actually means is good.

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