Nothing matters about a spike except the time when it happens. There quite literally is nothing else.

3. Compared to the other interactions (chemical synapses, electrical synapses, neuromodulation) the LFP is exceedingly weak and low-dimensional.
4. So, if you model the CNS by successive approximation, you can safely ignore extracellular fields in your first few attempts.
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A podcast? Are you looking for scientific rigor in the right places?

There's a principle of optics that says you can't actually focus all the light of the sun, at least with passive components like mirrors and lenses. The highest light flux you can achieve is that at the surface of the sun, and that's not bright enough to do real damage. But funny question anyway!

We didn't have a phone or TV. But yes, a bathroom and books.

"Your mind's on vacation and your mouth is working overtime"
– Mose Allison

Here's one that's easy to remember: 1 year = π * 10^7 seconds.

From Berthold Brecht: A man asked Mr. K. whether there is a God. Mr. K. said: “Consider whether, depending on the answer, your behavior would change. If it would not change, then we can drop the question. If it would change, then ... I can say, you have already decided: you need a God.”

Spotted on a colleague's slide: "In rejection at Nature" :)

what is "printing out"?

beautiful photos!

Yes Izakaya in Shanghai, near Institute of Neuroscience. They had an all-you-can-drink special from the fountain, but I opted for draft Sapporo instead.

If you just say those things, that's free speech, not the destruction of free speech.

Also impressively straight stream. Ignoring aerodynamic drag I estimate a nozzle velocity of 10 m/s, and an internal pressure of 1 atm.

This seems like a complicated and unreliable way to find a published article. Can't you just browse the citations of Erdos's paper and read the abstracts? Maybe that could be done for the other Erdos problems too?

Only if you're in the right-most lane.