Japan's ambassador to the UK has visited the Gillingham church where Will Adams, the first and only English samurai, was baptised.
More here: bbc.in/4hOA8nV
Himari's new album opens with one of the hardest violin concertos ever written, live with @BerlinPhil. But there are quieter moments too, like this Sibelius Mazurka with pianist Chelsea Wang.
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This is, without question, one of the finest pieces of architecture in San Francisco for me, and one of my personal favourites. The others would probably be SFMOMA and the de Young Museum.
33 years of human work went into mapping a brain smaller than a poppy seed.
This is all of it, every one of its 139,255 neurons.
1 female fruit fly was sliced into 7,050 layers, each thinner than a virus, then shot in 21 million photos.
AI traced the cells, and humans checked every wire by hand: scientists, students and gamers clicking for fun.
The final map:
139,255 neurons
54.5M synapses
8,453 cell types
150 meters of wire folded into 1 speck
No one had mapped a full adult brain before, not a mouse and not a human. A fly went first.
In September 2026, Janelia and Google released the male, with 166,700 neurons mapped from brain to legs through an intact neck.
2 weeks later, the internet put the fly to work:
It played Doom
It flew a simulated drone with zero training
It landed a simulated rocket 60 times out of 80
It wrote LinkedIn posts
But the map only shows where the wires go, not how strong each one is. It has no voltages and no timing, like a circuit diagram with no values on it.
Nobody knows what the fly is thinking, and it posts on LinkedIn anyway.
It took 33 person-years to map 1 fly, and your head holds 617,000 of them.