{"id":19834,"date":"2010-06-02T17:41:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/einstein%e2%80%99s-brain-einstein%e2%80%99s-glia-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-06-02T17:41:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:41:29","slug":"einstein%e2%80%99s-brain-einstein%e2%80%99s-glia-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/einstein%e2%80%99s-brain-einstein%e2%80%99s-glia-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Einstein\u2019s Brain, Einstein\u2019s Glia | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0561c_einstein.jpg?t=1272057492&amp;s=2\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">NPR&rsquo;s Jon Hamilton has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=126229305\">a nice piece<\/a> on Einstein&rsquo;s brain, and what might have made it special. The difference doesn&rsquo;t seem to have to do with its neurons, but with the other cells of the brain, the glia. I wrote about the glia&ndash;what I called the dark matter of the brain&ndash;in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2009\/sep\/19-dark-matter-of-the-human-brain\">this <em>Discover<\/em> column last fall<\/a>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/RJxXElM_pc-D8dhznx3uJtXH3VU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0561c_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/RJxXElM_pc-D8dhznx3uJtXH3VU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0561c_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0561c_T0lQjwUR2g8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0561c_ifuK1wEVPS4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&rsquo;s Jon Hamilton has a nice piece on Einstein&rsquo;s brain, and what might have made it special. The difference doesn&rsquo;t seem to have to do with its neurons, but with the other cells of the brain, the glia. I wrote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/einstein%e2%80%99s-brain-einstein%e2%80%99s-glia-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}