Why does Dr. Giedd compare reading to the new flood of information that a child's brain must process today?

He made this comparison because just as reading is a learned activity by the brain, so are the new flood of information that a child's brain must adapt to.

Explanation:

In describing the intricacies of the human brain, Dr. Jay Giedd talked about the brain's special ability to adapt to new behaviors as well as to multitask. Many of our ancestors lived and died without ever reading a book but humans alive today have adapted well to reading. So has the brain also adapted well to all the flood of information in our day.

The brain learns through examples and it does a good job at this. This is the more reason parents should endeavor to display good examples in the presence of their children.

americans began to notice growing differences between the northern and southern sections of the country. there were more people living in cities in the north, which made it more urban. more people lived on farms in the south, which made it more rural. while many people were farmers in the northern states, there were now other ways to make a living, such as working in mechanical cotton gins factories manufacturing cloth, tools and other goods. people in the north supported high tariffs on goods imported from europe because the extra cost encouraged people to “buy american” instead. in the southern states, planters did not like tariffs because they sold most of their production to europe and bought their tools from there as well. southerners believed the protective tariff was something that only northern factory owners keep their profits high. so the southern politicians came up with an idea. they would opt out. they would simply ignore the protective tariff. it was ‘null and void’ in south carolina. the state would not collect the taxes on goods imported into south carolina, no matter what the president said they had to do. this decision led to the nullification crisis.