The Neurophilosopher has a fabulous long post on the discovery of the neuron as the fundamental unit of the nervous system.
I would note when you get to the part about Ramon y Cajal that his picture of the neurons in a chick cerebellum formed the red banner for this site, and a picture of him is part of the green banner. He is my favorite neuroscientist. (For those of you who haven't noticed if you keep reloading the site you get a random banner. There are six.)
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Dear readers, if you frequent the other fine blogs here at ScienceBlogs, you will have noticed that a number of them have neat-looking banners.
Ah, one last announcement for the day. We have a new blogger in Scienceblogs-land.
One year ago today the current incarnation of evolgen at ScienceBlogs was launched.
Fred Clark of Slacktivist points to the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and specifically their