Good News: You’ve Got a Better Brain Than You Think

If babies could gloat, they would. The rest of us may have it all over them when it comes to size, strength and basic table manners, but brain power? Forget it. The brain you had at birth was the best little brain you'll ever have. The one you've got now? Think of a Commodore 64—with no expansion slots.

That, at least, has been the conventional thinking, and in some ways it's right.