-Abigail Baird, a developmental neuroscientist at Dartmouth

Some quotes are best left out of context. This one gets the grey matter going even without reading the entire New York Times article describing why teenagers just can’t control themselves. It reminds me of a concept that I remember from one of the BBC 13 part series from the 80s - David Attenborough? - where written information stored in books was compared to an extra lobe of the brain. Humans had derived evolutionary advantages from writing much the same way they might have had their brains simply become larger and more capable, according to the analogy.