The NEURON
http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2011/05/04/science-101-the-neuron/    SCIENCE 101! The NEURON May 04 2011  Published by  scicurious  under  Basic Science Posts ,  Uncategorized Sci has been intending to do one of these posts for a while. I seem to spend ages talking about neurons,  synapses ,  action potentials , connections, neurotransmitters , and  different brain areas . But for all that, a lot of people don't really know what a neuron looks like and where the connections are taking place. So it's time to get back to basics. And that means a neuron (of course, things can get WAY more basic and in turn get more complicated, but we're sticking with the neurons for now). And to help me out with this, I'm gonna take my first hack at Vuvox, a program allowing me to make an interactive collage. I saw Ed try it out to great effect for a post on  ants as rafts  (yes, AS rafts, it's awesome, go look), and I knew I HAD to try this one myself....