Counting... And Being Counted"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Although often attributed to Albert Einstein,...
What Should Come Next?Surely by now, no one has been left ignorant of the tremendously devastating tragedy that occurred in Florida this past Wednesday. Truly,...
February Goal PostWell, I guess somehow it's already February. In past goal posts I imagined myself at this time being in the stage of rewriting my thesis...
On Glutamergic Excitotoxicity and Preventing StagnationBefore I tell you about all the new and exciting things I'm learning in the neuron world, I do have to correct something from my last...
Models, Bias, and Necessary(?) AnonymityWith the start of a new semester, my social studies class switched from Public Policy to Economics and although we've only had a few...
The Neuron DoctrineThe "Neuron Doctrine" is a neuroscience theory determined by Santiago Ramon y Cajal (he won a nobel prize for his brilliant work with...
Sight, Application, and a Second PurposeIf we were to look at the whole nerve ring of a C. elegans organism, it would be unclear to us whether each cellular component is a...
Immunity... to CRISPR?I suppose it won't be long before our cells start to get confused about their genomes - which sequence came first? CRISPR, gene editing...
Glial Processes and the Common ThreadIn our January Day presentation, I talked about something that I've been neglecting to discuss here - the history of neuroscience. And...
Podcast Take 2, Picture Book, What's Next?So I tried the podcast again, and it's still something RadioLab would cringe at but I think I've shown some improvement. I won't go into...