In preparation for tonight's Baltimore Speakers Series lecture with Harvard University Neuroscientist Lisa Genova, here is an insightful (if not sobering) read on the impact of television watching on early brain development. 

Q: "What’s wrong with using television as just entertainment?"

A: "Children get used to not using their imaginative thinking at all, and they don’t exercise that part of the brain (the neocortex) that creates the pictures... Creating pictures is... the foundation of our dreams and higher thoughts (intuitions, inspirations, and imaginations). We dream, think and imagine possibilities of the future in pictures." http://ow.ly/aUPS30lzX0L