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What brings BioE out of retirement?

By bioephemera on October 8, 2010.

This, this and this all came close, but in the end, it took a book: a yummy new neuroscience, history of science, beauty of science, wow-brains-are-beautiful book.

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The other day I heard about something that I just HAD to blog, hiatus/retirement be damned! Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century, a new book by neurobiology PhD candidate Carl Schoonover, is coming out in a few weeks, and I'm lucky enough to have a preview copy sitting here before me.

This book encapsulates my original vision for BioE - a narrative that brings science history together with current research, and finds the art in both. I'm so excited to see books like this making their way into the mainstream, and to have the chance to review a few of them. While there are many reasons that BioE won't be returning to its former posting frequency, I'll do my best to spotlight projects like this when I find them. Stay tuned!

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