Humanity's Dirge

Summary

A short dirge that introduces one of the themes of Filugori, my planned book on man's conquest of space.

An introductory dirge for my planned book Filugori, which chronicles humanity's conquest of space. It sets the tone of the book, of man's loneliness amidst the vast emptiness of space. I'll be posting more on Filugori in the future, stay tuned.

Humanity's Dirge

We are alone.

Hubris towers above man, waiting for him to falter.

We are alone.

Philosophers young and old still ponder.

We are alone.

Scientists claim to see something in the ether.

We are alone.

Explorers journey out, their minds seeking shelter.

We are alone.

Planets of gold make us forget to remember.

We are alone.

Emptiness is a fear in long slumber.

We are alone.

And so we explore the cosmos in search of an answer...

-biafra
bahanonu [at] alum.mit.edu

additional articles to journey through:

filugori reboot
15 may 2012 | filugori

Several months ago I took a hard look at Filugori: The Long Tale, the story I started in grade school that was meant to be a mash-[...]up of my favorite books and fictional universes. However, it lacked a certain vision. The story was fun, frantic and fanciful, but there was no heart. It lacked cohesion and the universe did not appear to justify its own existence. Why should someone care to read this tale? What would they gain from it? While fleshing out the background of the universe, providing details on the four major epochs that define the story, I came to realize that I wanted to tell a very different tale than originally planned.

filugori reboot
15 may 2012 | filugori

Several months ago I took a hard look at Filugori: The Long Tale, the story I started in grade school that was meant to be a mash-[...]up of my favorite books and fictional universes. However, it lacked a certain vision. The story was fun, frantic and fanciful, but there was no heart. It lacked cohesion and the universe did not appear to justify its own existence. Why should someone care to read this tale? What would they gain from it? While fleshing out the background of the universe, providing details on the four major epochs that define the story, I came to realize that I wanted to tell a very different tale than originally planned.

long-term optical imaging of the spinal cord in awake, behaving animals
25 may 2023 | neuroscience

How does the spinal cord process sensory stimuli in awake animals? A brief overview of results from our recent preprint describing [...]a spinal implant chamber, fibrosis-inhibiting materials, computational methods, and end-to-end pipeline for large-scale bilateral recording from multiple segments of the spinal cord. This allowed us to conduct long-term (months to over a year) imaging of individual axons, microglia dynamics, and Ca2+ imaging of neurons—all in awake, behaving animals.

Several of the approaches described, such as fibrosis inhibition, are applicable to preparations and experiments beyond the spinal cord.

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