Snooping and Babies

created April 21st 2007

last updated Sunday August 19 2007

Do you realise a device exists that can see what you have on your computer screen from the radio waves that your moniter emits even through walls?

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/seeing-through-walls.html

Check this about babies, basically everything they do at birth is just a reflex:

"While babies come into the world with some very useful survival reflexes, they are still strikingly helpless, in large part because the cerebral cortex is still quite immature. As the highest, most recently evolved part of the brain, the cerebral cortex is responsible for all of our conscious thoughts, feelings, memories, and voluntary actions. ..........

At its peak, the cerebral cortex creates an astonishing two million new synapses every second. With these new connections come a baby's many mental milestones, such as color vision, a pincer grasp, or a strong attachment to his parents.

By two years of age, a toddler's cerebral cortex contains well over a hundred trillion synapses. This period of synaptic exuberance varies in different parts of the cerebral cortex "

Also babies seem to be a little daft too :)

"Newborns' brains contain very little myelin, the dense impermeable substance that covers the length of mature brain cells and is necessary for clear, efficient electrical transmission. This lack of myelin is the main reason why babies and young children process information so much more slowly than adults—why it might take a toddler a minute or more to begin responding to a request such as "Joey, bring Mommy the teddy bear."

In case you want to read more
http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_key_brainFAQ