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Break from the Grind October 17, 2016
TRIVIAL PURSUITS: What color is your brain?
Reported by PLANSPONSOR staff
But, what color is your brain?
The human brain is pink, because of blood vessels.
Deprived of fresh, oxygenated blood, the brain appears gray.
About 40% of the living brain is gray matter and about 60% is white matter, but these terms aren’t accurate descriptions of color; they designate tissue of two different kinds.