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Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "brain" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "brain" over time.
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It consists of nervous tissue and is typically located in the head (cephalization), usually near organs for special senses such as vision, hearing, and olfaction. Being the most specialized organ, it is responsible for receiving information from the sensory nervous system, processing that information and the coordination of motor control. Read more on Wikipedia