How was my day?
Ah, nothing much,
Was making memories in
brains of lab rats by
shooting lasers.
Fake memories mostly.
But hey, they were
happy and high.
Hey,
Was wondering,
What-if?
We are actually
also rats
running down the maze
in some bigger experiment
and the ones
doing experiments on us
are really also rats
running down the maze
in some bigger experiment
and the ones
doing experiments on them
are also rats
in some other cosmic experiment
and so on and so forth
ad infinitum…
Ah crap!! Tell me how your sandwich
was.
Author-
Rajyashree Sen is a postdoc in the lab of Richard Axel at Columbia University. She did her graduate work in the lab of Barry Dickson, first at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (Vienna) and then at HHMI Janelia Research Campus (Virginia). As a graduate student, she dissected the neuronal pathways for evasive (backward) walking in fruit flies. As a postdoc in the Axel lab, she studies the neuronal bases of social memories in mice. When she is not in the lab, she writes and does improv comedy. Along with being fun, these help her to communicate science in a clear and entertaining manner.
Illustrator-
Not all who wander are lost, but most are. Mark Palfreyman is one of those. He started his life in France playing with worms, after college in Colorado decided to try it again. He moved to Utah and did a Ph.D. Then he found some fruit flies in Vienna and played with them. Now he is taking a step sideways as a duck might step sideways à l’orange; or, maybe more likely, as a coq steps sideways au vin. What he is currently doing, he knows not.
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