stackyFACTSThe foundation of how your brain processes everything was cracked by a guy who really just wanted to be a painter.
The foundation of how your brain processes everything was cracked by a guy who really just wanted to be a painter. Santiago Ramón y Cajal spent his days staring through a microscope at slices of brain tissue stained with silver, hand-drawing the chaotic forests of neurons he saw. His meticulous, beautiful ink sketches proved that the nervous system isn't one continuous web, but billions of individual cells communicating across gaps.
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