always look up :)
Great interview with Eve Marder www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/u...
Today I expected something to take longer and be harder than I expected, yet was still surprised when it did. Very strange, these brains of ours.
Large pine weevil, Hylobius abietis. Here you can see part of the weevil’s compound eye. You can see that the hair usually has two or three fine tips. And of course, on the left, the mysterious hole between the eyes of these and many other species of weevils.🤷🏻♂️
Dunno for spinal cord. For cortex: "Foundational EM-based studies of individual Golgi- or dye-filled neurons ... have revealed that the local axon collaterals of both excitatory and inhibitory neurons may also be myelinated." refs in: elifesciences.org/articles/15784
Parvalbumin-positive inhibitory neurons in the cortex have insulating myelin sheathes, despite forming only short-range connections.
Theory: they gave it max 10% you were fake, min 90% you were real, and wanted to use you as training data for what a real scientist sounds like. Breaks up a boring day. If on the off chance you were fake, well, that would have been even more interesting for them.
one of my favorite sayings: "It's not a negotiation if you can't say no." (Close competitor: "Remember to look up." But you've heard that one before. :))