It’s good to be home although the city is still recovering from its unprecidented bath–something on the order of 12.5 inches in four days at Reagan National Airport. Our house, near the Potomac’s Chain Bridge, seems to be fine. For the Fourth, we’ll be joining friends who have chartered a boat to cruise the River past the monuments as the fireworks illuminate them. I hope for good weather.
I’m very pleased that the June issue of The Biological Bulletin is out and we’ve made it free. It’s a special “virtual symposium” on marine invertebrate models of learning and memory–the notion being that if we can understand the mechanisms of learning in a simple system of say, 10,000 neurons, perhaps we’ll get insight into the mechanisms that subserve learning in our own brains with one hundred billion nerve cells. Kudos to issue editors Donna McPhie and Mark Miller for a spectacular job!
Discoverers and Discoveries 