I recently sat down with neurobiologist George Pollak, professor in the Section of Neurobiology in the College of Natural Sciences, and asked him how he became interested in studying the brain, and why he uses bats to study it.
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The making of a bat-man
By Daniel Oppenheimer
Daniel Oppenheimer
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