I suspect this is in Nature Neuroscience at least as much for it the technical challenge behind the research as anything to do with the big idea. I would also h

I suspect this is in Nature Neuroscience at least as much for it the technical challenge behind the research as anything to do with the big idea. I would also hesitate to make any claim as to whether or not the average HN reader can, today, understand the article. If I was going to identify any shortcoming in their ability, I would focus on our educational systems with their obscene focus on hyper-specialization ("I specialize in the left kidney . . . no, no, I don't do right kidneys.") It has become increasingly my experience, as someone with training in physics, military, medicine, and computers, that one of our major problems as a society is how uninvolved we are with anything, anything, outside our hyperfocused domains, or the spoonfed news we get from the MSM. I like the idea PG expressed about the nature of Boston: you feel like you really should read those <classics | groundbreaking studies | revolutionary opinions>.