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Cartographer Heroes

I was paging through a recent Wired magazine. There is an article about the Heroes of 2007. One of the heroes (or group of) is listed as cartographers. They mapped the brain of a mouse. Did you know that a mouse brain is 90% the same as humans'? The idea of this medical research being intertwining with cartography is beautiful. I wonder what a large flat classic fold-up map of a mouse brain would look like? I realize the map is probably not in that format, but the word cartography has certain associations for me that suggest certain classic map styles...

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