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NeuroDojo
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NeuroDojo is a personal blog at neurodojo.blogspot.com about science. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers jellyfish nervous systems, which have a ring nervous system rather than a brain. A commenter cites it in a thread on whether the brain has a waste-clearance system.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brains, behaviour, and evolution.
What Hacker News says?
You guys keep saying that silly myth. They don't have a BRAIN but they have nervous system. A nervous system creates waste and that waste needs to be reclaimed. What's a brain? An exotic collection of neurons... that create waste. http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/05/jellyfish-nervous-syst... >Instead, jellyfish have a ring nervous system, located along the margin of the bell. There is definitely a concentration of…
Comment linking /2009/05/jellyfish-nervous-system-myth-busted.html
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