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My new favorite word is "benthic": of, related to, or occurring at the bottom of a body of water.

The word of the day is coppiced: (of a tree or shrub) having been cut back to ground level periodically to stimulate growth.

Lubricious: offensively displaying or intended to arouse sexual desire, or smooth and slippery with oil or a similar substance.

acedia: spiritual or mental sloth, or apathy

You've never seen a film like Lapsis. It's beautiful, funny, and strange. The LA Times said "it feels like one of those movies we’ll be looking at decades from now and, however tech has transformed our lives, saying “Yeah, ‘Lapsis’ had that.” Out on demand today!

The Brain in Search of Itself is the beguiling story of 'the father of modern neuroscience,' a man who sketched a beautiful, alluring portrait of the most complex object in the known universe. —Lisa Feldman Barrett on Ben Ehrlich's new book Farrar,Straus&Giroux us.macmillan.com/books/97803741…

The “father of modern neuroscience,” Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Nobel 1906), was an unlikely scholar. My review of “The Brain in Search of Itself,” by Ben Ehrlich, for The Wall Street Journal WSJ Books Section: wsj.com/articles/the-b…

"In the same way that all Russian literature came from Gogol’s 'Overcoat,' as attributed to Dostoevsky, we owe our modern view of the brain to Cajal." Ben Ehrlich on studying the genius Santiago Ramón y Cajal. lithub.com/the-mysterious…

My book The Brain in Search of Itself is out today with Farrar,Straus&Giroux !

I wrote this piece about my book for LitHub on genius, biography, and neurons. lithub.com/the-mysterious…

Apart from my book, @GburgReview published a short story of mine in their new issue. gettysburgreview.com

Nautilus Magazine published this article I wrote about Cajal's unexpected study of ants: nautil.us/i-have-to-admi…

Benjamín Labatut, a writer whom I admire, reviewed my book in The New York Times: nytimes.com/2022/06/22/boo…

Aeon published an essay I wrote about the history of histology, visualizing brain cells, and Cajal’s modern legacy: aeon.co/essays/the-sen…

What’s your favorite word to say? Mine’s “specificity.”