The cluttered, winding halls of the Harvard Natural History Museum unfurl into impressively dense, colorful collections at every turn. I easily spend an hour looking at the rocks and minerals room alone, scanning down the rows of glass cases and pointing out oddly organic shapes and textures.
I spoke to Dr. Li Ye, an Associate Professor at the Scripps Research Institute, about his lab’s work mapping neural connections between the brain and the rest of the body.
I talked to Dr. Jose Maldonado, Research Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University, about his work with the Vanderbilt Neurovisualization Lab (VNL) and using novel tools to study the brain in 3D.
In my sleep sometimes I catch myself circling the iron rail Guarding an opening in the second floor of an empty café. I close my eyes tightly until the colors come back, Until I can hear glasses clinking at the bar below, Until I can see chickens and small birds return To their ornate paintings, […]
In Simon’s the walls are narrow like an airplane corridor And the music plays too loudly on the speaker in the back corner By the bathroom and this is where we sit. The only seats amidst The camped computers and cold coffee, turned bitter by the hours Of the day. The baristas have their names […]
In the summer there are peaches and the nights are not short. My head, an apple in a bonsai tree, topples over to sleep. I roll through the halls where the living honor the dead Only on the anniversaries of their coming and going. Chickadee footfalls foretell winter, the light changes, You can be wrong […]