Yes. I could or should have edited that NYT subheading.

Tom Reese was a fabulous mentor. He was a giant of a scientist. I am very grateful to have had him in my life.

www.mbl.edu/news/obituar...

Plus I did some of my own research on septate junction structure, in one of my first publications (1986): journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...

I learned how to perform freeze fracture electron microscopy at age 20. And I learned a ton of neuroscience (cellular neuroanatomy).

I was a darkroom technician for Tom Reese, and many of his classic papers have images I helped create (to optimize for stereoscopic viewing).

My duties also included packing up his lab at NIH every May and driving a huge truck to @mblscience.bsky.social. He taught me how to pack a truck, too.

I learned so much about science, about its joys and struggles, and about running an inventive and open lab working at the scientific frontier from Tom Reese.

I still do many of the things I observed in my own lab, HNL www.HumanNatureLab.net

Yes, good analogy. Still, this reminds me of the old (efficient markets) joke at UChicago when I was there. Two economists are walking and there is a $100 bill on the sidewalk.

Econ1: "Look: a $100 bill."

Econ2: "It can't be. Someone else would have already picked it up."

What is Hades 2?

Follow-up: Two men aged 18 and 20 stupidly and for no apparent reason set off a commercial firework in the building. Further frontal lobe maturation (studied in the building they damaged) may take place in federal prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

It will pass like a wave.

We are still talking about this over 3,200 years later. The only actually heroic man in the whole story. And he was a Trojan! ;-)

Of one focuses on Hector (the only real hero of the book) and Andromache, real values emerge. ;-)