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Ari Berkowitz

Ari is a presidential professor of biology and the director of the Cellular & Behavioral Neurobiology Graduate Program at the University of Oklahoma. He receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology.

Stories from Ari Berkowitz

Is this supposed to be a democracy or what? (Shown here: North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un visiting Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in 2014.)

Metaphorically Speaking, Your Nervous System is a Dictatorship

Except when it’s an oligarchy. Or a democracy. Or all three.