they make this sound a bit like it's peculiar to taxi drivers. like every other adult has their brain get stuck in aspic after childhood.

now london is a tricky town to get your head around spatially, but i would imagine any self-respecting academic or polymath would feed similar amounts of data into their brains, so why do we keep coming back to taxi-drivers?

are taxi drivers in rio di janeiro similar?

do different sections of their brains develop too?

this snippet of neurotrivia ha been making rounds for years, i just wonder why they don't take it further.

human tom toms proves only so much... kalahari bushmen probably have similar memory banking brain-mapping the nuances of their territories.

turn left at the pig wallow...

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