Pretty long detour ... "evolution cannot go back to the drawing board. Evolution has no foresight." To observe the dissection of a giraffe's recurrent laryngeal nerve by Professor Richard Dawkins ...

In a new study, a team of doctors uses 16th century drawings and texts to pin the blame on a nerve injury sustained when da Vinci fainted. We're pretty sure da Vinci was mostly left-handed ...

And his drawings are still found in many neuroscience textbooks. "The model of the nerve cell that everybody still learns is the one that Cajal laid out basically in the 1890s," Swanson says.

I'm assuming it's a pretty big deal for an illustrator ... for The New Yorker differ from taking on an Optic Nerve drawing? I think of myself as having two different jobs: cartooning and illustration.