Early in the DVD, narrator and UO neuroscientist Helen Neville explains that the human brain has the consistency of room-temperature butter. Cut to an index finger nonchalantly pushing down on a moist bar of butter, and a salient and admittedly cringe-worthy point has been made.
UO physicist Frank Vignola (right) has some surprising news for the sun-deprived denizens of Oregon and its dour winters. About two-thirds of the Northwest gets as much solar radiation as Florida.
Sexism isn't rampant in computer science, says Kiki Davis (right), but it's there -- simmering beneath the surface, bubbling up with small, insensitive comments and unfair assumptions.
Evolution, like necessity, is a prolific mother of invention. And some inventors, in their turn, take their cue from evolution.
When the volcano erupted, a UO professor discovered that local residents consoled themselves through song.
Where were you on May 18, 1980? Got a Mt. St. Helens tale to tell?
Join UO neuroscientists as they bring the host of the PBS series, The Human Spark into their brain research lab. 
Temple Grandin, perhaps the world's best known person with autism, drew an overflow crowd to her UO talk.
That's how Roger Jacob describes his chance to study his tribal language, Sahaptin, with Yakama elder Virginia Beavert.
Watch a slideshow about Elena Rodina's journalistic globetrotting, from the Arctic Circle to Cuba.
