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Audio Edition: How Much Energy Does It Take To Think?

Jan 08, 2026

12 min

Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ.

The story How Much Energy Does It Take To Think? first appeared on Quanta Magazine.

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