Cause and Effect Blog Post #7

For this post I chose "The Beguiling Truth About Beauty", mainly because of the interesting line about our brains never stopping gathering data. I find this statement to be wholeheartedly true. Even though we may be past our learning phase once we exit school, our minds always learn something new, even if it's completely irrelevant. That is how our brains are wired. It is meant to take in any new information. Whether or not that is something you are interested in, it is something our brain scans and locks away or discards.

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