The bizarre-looking ‘homunculus’ is one of neuroscience’s most fundamental diagrams. Found in countless textbooks, it depicts a deformed constellation of body parts mapped onto a narrow strip of the ...

Tomorrow is the big recall vote in Wisconsin and, while it's far from certain how things will turn out, most polls are looking pretty good for the target of the action, Gov. Scott Walker, who is ...

Last week I wrote about a crazy diagram called the “homunculus,” which shows how your body would look if each part were scaled to the amount of real estate it occupies in the brain: Your hands and ...