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Friday, November 4, 2022

 

The Nobel Prize
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How is René Descartes similar to 2021 medicine laureates David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian? The answer is they all sought to understand how our nervous system senses our environment. Julius and Patapoutian found how heat, cold and touch initiate signals in our nervous system.

On the left it is as scan of Descartes book title, on the right is a drawing of a man standing in the fire. There is a tube from his foot (in the fire) to his brain.

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