Intermission: Inside the Mouse Brain

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Andrew Price
Former Web Editor, GOOD.is

October 28, 2009 • 12:46 pm PDT
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The Whole Brain Catalog is a project aimed at creating a comprehensive, detailed 3-D model of the brain of Mus musculus, the common house mouse. Here's a tour.

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It's basically the same stuff going on inside your skull: Lots of Philip Glass music and purple thunderstorms.

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