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Imagine taking the skull off and looking at the surface of the brain like that.
If you think about it, using the outsides of these blood vessels like this is a really clever design solution, because the brain is enclosed in a rigid skull and it's packed full of cells, so there is no extra space inside it for a whole second set of vessels like the lymphatic system.
You're probably thinking, "Sounds good, but what about skull and bones?
Well, this is real human skull.
But we treat this skull with great respect at our lab and here at TED.
So we can go through skull and bones and flesh with just red light.
So that means we can focus through skull and brain to a neuron.
I've shown here onstage our system focusing through skull and brain to the diameter of the smallest neuron.
Your brain is locked in a vault of silence and darkness inside your skull.
His skull is quite strong.
When the girl at rest, velocity equals zero miles per hour, begins accelerating to reach the speed within seconds, velocity increases rapidly to 25,000 miles per hour, her brain would crash into the side of her skull.
And, when she stops suddenly, velocity decreases rapidly back to zero miles per hour, her brain would crash into the other side of her skull, turning her brain into mush.
The idea that 9/10 of your brain sits idly by in your skull looks silly when we calculate how the brain uses energy.
On September 1st, 1953, William Scoville used a hand crank and a cheap drill saw to bore into a young man's skull, cutting away vital pieces of his brain and sucking them out through a metal tube.
As a boy, Henry had cracked his skull in an accident and soon began having seizures, blacking out and losing control of bodily functions.
Pulling that lever with the skull symbol just to see what it did probably wasn't so smart, either, but now is not the time for regrets because you need to get away from these mutant zombies fast.
Inside its protective membranes and the skull's hard casing, this delicate organ is usually well-shielded.
But a sudden jolt can make the brain shift and bump against the skull's hard interior, and unlike jello, the brain's tissue isn't uniform.
And if pain continued, a medical practitioner would perform the best-known remedy— drilling a small hole in the skull to drain supposedly infected blood.
For example, in dehydration headaches, the frontal lobe actually shrinks away from the skull, creating forehead swelling that doesn’t match the location of the pain in tension headaches.
Migraines are recurring headaches, which create a vise-like sensation on the skull that can last from four hours to three days.
This means that his brain was not formed correctly because part of his skull was missing.
And just like the doctor said, Thomas was missing the top part of his skull, but he could nurse, drink from a bottle, cuddle and grab our fingers like a normal baby, and he slept in our arms.
And like many pirates of that era, he flew a flag that bore the macabre symbols of a human skull and a pair of crossed bones, because those motifs had signified death in so many cultures for centuries, that their meaning was instantly recognizable, even in the lawless, illiterate world of the high seas: surrender or you'll suffer.
They're in fact designed and tested for their ability to protect against skull fracture.
The reason we're able to prevent skull fracture with helmets is because it's pretty simple.
What you see is the head moves forward, the brain lags behind, then the brain catches up and smashes into the skull.
It rebounds off the skull and then proceeds to run into the other side of the skull.
And what you'll notice is highlighted in this video from the CDC, which I'll note was funded by the NFL, is that the outer surface of the brain, where it was to have smashed into the skull, looks like it's been damaged or injured, so it's on the outer surface of the brain.
It does lag behind the skull and then catch up and move back and forth and oscillate.
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