{"id":912,"date":"2013-07-30T08:46:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T08:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/07\/30\/microscopicexpressionism-you-wish-your-neurons\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T20:48:13","slug":"microscopicexpressionism-you-wish-your-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/30\/microscopicexpressionism-you-wish-your-neurons\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/microscopicexpressionism.tumblr.com\/post\/43986019374\/you-wish-your-neurons-were-this-pretty-when-greg\">microscopicexpressionism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/02\/you-wish-your-neurons-were-this-pretty\/?pid=6339&amp;viewall=true\">You Wish Your Neurons Were This Pretty<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>When\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregadunn.com\/\">Greg Dunn<\/a><span>\u00a0finished his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Penn in 2011, he bought himself a sensory deprivation tank as a graduation present. The gift marked a major life transition, from the world of science to a life of meditation and art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now a full-time artist living in Philadelphia,\u00a0Dunn says he was inspired in his grad-student days by the spare beauty of neurons treated with certain stains. The Golgi stain, for example, will turn one or two neurons black against a golden background.\u00a0\u201dIt has this Zen quality to it that really appealed to me,\u201d Dunn said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>microscopicexpressionism: You Wish Your Neurons Were This Pretty When\u00a0Greg Dunn\u00a0finished his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Penn in 2011, he bought himself a sensory deprivation tank as a graduation present. The gift marked a major life transition, from the world of science to a life of meditation and art. Now a full-time artist living in Philadelphia,\u00a0Dunn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-eI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1308,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/21\/if-a-network-is-broken-break-it-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":912,"position":0},"title":"If A Network Is Broken, Break It More","author":"monochromist","date":"July 21, 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"If A Network Is Broken, Break It MoreMaking small adjustments can improve an entire system\u2019s state. 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