Actually being a Taxi driver can be quite literally mentally stimulating!
The medicine prize went to a team at University College London for a study showing the brains of London taxi drivers are more highly developed than those of their fellow citizens. Their report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April 2000, showed that cabbies have an especially large hippocampus, associated with spatial memory
maybe they looked it up in a dictonary?
The online Merriam-Webster dictionary provides the following definitions for the word "doctor" when used as a noun:
1. a: an eminent theologian declared a sound expounder of doctrine by the Roman Catholic Church--called also doctor of the church
b a learned or authoritative teacher
c a person who has earned one of the highest academic degrees (as a Ph.D.) conferred by a university
d a person awarded an honorary doctorate (as an LLD or Litt D) by a college or university
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Actually being a Taxi driver can be quite literally mentally stimulating! The medicine prize went to a team at University College London for a study showing the brains of London taxi drivers are more highly developed than those of their fellow citizens. Their report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April 2000, showed that cabbies have an especially large hippocampus, associated with spatial memory
Watch the special features dvd of "finding nemo". It's like a whole hour talking with folks that work at pixar. Pretty cool I thought.
The man who knew infinity- ramanajun comes to mind?
maybe they looked it up in a dictonary? The online Merriam-Webster dictionary provides the following definitions for the word "doctor" when used as a noun: 1. a: an eminent theologian declared a sound expounder of doctrine by the Roman Catholic Church--called also doctor of the church b a learned or authoritative teacher c a person who has earned one of the highest academic degrees (as a Ph.D.) conferred by a university d a person awarded an honorary doctorate (as an LLD or Litt D) by a college or university