missing million dollar painting
grrlscientist | December 14, 2008
Elizabeth Gibson alongside the story I wrote about her on my blog [larger view].
Image: GrrlScientist, 14 December 2008.
A most remarkable thing happened to me just now. I am working on some writing in a Manhattan coffee shop when two women sat at the table next to me and began negotiating a roommate situation. After I overheard them both talking about research into the neurobiology of learning, all attempts on my part to ignore their conversation went out the window. Neither of these things are particularly unusual, but what was very unusual was when I learned that I actually know one of…