Who would have thought?

Recently I attended a lecture through the LOGIC Club at UCLA about Global Capitalism, and an emphasis of this lecture was the importance of the mind, and how the root of productivity is through innovation, invention, exploration, and so forth. All of this is accomplished through the mind. Hopefully this is a concept that doesn't need too much more explanation, or rather that you wouldn't consider to be a new idea at all. 

The next day the psychology class at school had a brain specialist visiting, and with him a spinal chord, a left-brain, and a full brain unceremoniously floating in a bucket. Students were allowed to handle the specimens with gloves, and I eagerly placed myself in line. I didn't feel that it would be a big deal, besides being a cool thing about which one could Twitter. Actually, seconds before holding the full brain I recall thinking exactly, 'This won't have a big impact on me.' Wrong. I believe part of it was the lecture, but, I mean, weighing down my hands was this large, wet, soggy lump of dense, grey sponge that coincidentally contains and, for that matter, maintains our very essence. It was the epitome of active life just soaking in a tub of formaldehyde...

Speaking of brains, this fabric brain art is uber amazing.

...and so is this fabric craft, even if it's not of a brain.