Braaaaaains

This man is brilliant. His talk makes me want to switch into neuroscience - and believe me, I loves me my bugs. It also just gets me all excited about the future.

Can you tell I'm addicted to the TED talks?

Sure beats my chicken-dance interpretation of bacterial glucose transport.

Interpretive dance is always something I've made fun of. It still is. This one's an interpretation of symbiosis by two Cirque-du-Soleil-style dancers with the great-grandmothers of all wedgies. It's pretty mesmerizing for the first few minutes, but come on. I'm all for the appreciation of biology as a beautiful thing, but this is a little over the top; on the other hand, I think it would be hilarious if someone got Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins to do it.