> (I previously worked for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and lived on an island in the Panama Canal) This is, by a wide margin, the mos

> (I previously worked for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and lived on an island in the Panama Canal) This is, by a wide margin, the most interesting "casually made" comment I'd read in a bit. Any chance you can provide slightly more details? I didn't even know there _was_ an island in the Panama Canal; nonetheless people living on it (presumably all researchers?)