Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Douglas Adams introduced a whimsical universe in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where the search for life’s deepest mysteries takes on unexpected twists. A… Read More »Of Mice, Men, and Machines: AI, Purpose, and the Pursuit of Life’s Big Questions
Guest blogger Katie Pham is a neuroscience Ph.D. student interested in visual processing and memory research. She was born in Hanoi and raised in Northern… Read More »What Birds in Love Teach Us About How the Brain Processes Competing Motivations
Photos courtesy of the author. Introduction Cats are both celebrated and maligned for their aloof nature, ardent curiosity and playful attitude. Despite their mercurial behavior,… Read More »A Semi-Quantitative Analysis of the Cats of Baltimore
Johns Hopkins researchers found that the heel bone looks different in gorillas who walk on land compared with those who live in the trees, establishing… Read More »From the Trees to the Ground: What Gorilla Feet Can Teach Us About Evolution
After decades of breeding, domesticated dogs represent the most phenotypically diverse species of mammal on Earth. Given this, the question of whether dogs can recognize… Read More »Fur-Get Me Not: Can Dogs Recognize Other Dogs?
Have you ever wondered if your cat really loves you? A recent study has shown that cats have the same ability as infants and dogs… Read More »Graduate School Is the Cat’s Meow
Humans are constantly making decisions about how to spend time, yet we are pretty terrible at doing so effectively. We sit through boring movies, stay… Read More »A New Animal Model for Bad Decisions
I occasionally find myself walking through the dark underbelly of the Johns Hopkins medical campus along “designated laboratory transport” routes. These concrete tunnels allow researchers… Read More »Who Let the Dogs Out?