But the world is...awesome

I saw this XKCD comic going around like a particularly virulent strain of influenza and started laughing, because Wendy is in the middle of putting together a manuscript for publication and our recent two weeks featured a two hour long search for the prettiest brains to photograph and, as of this week, a ten minute discussion on which of the two panel of five brains is prettier (and whether or not highlighting the folia of the cerebella contributes or detracts from the overall aesthetics).

(Personally I prefer immunofluorescence. They're shiny! And if you work in fruitflies and have a particularly good confocal laser microscope you can layer up to six colors per embryo!)

(Though I also think Trizol is kind of pretty, especially when you're at the chloroform layering step.)

So there you have it: beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and here in the fields of research, we're all a bit mad.