Polly, I wish you 'd let me call you Marie, said Fanny one day, as they were shopping together. You may call me Mary, if you like; but I won't have any ie put on to my name. I'm Polly at home and I'm fond of being called so; but Marie is Frenchified and silly. I spell my own name with an ie, and so do all the girls. And what a jumble of Netties, Nellies, Hatties, and Sallies there is. How 'Pollie' would look spelt so!

The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.

Eciton army ants have a bi-phasic lifestyle alternating between a nomadic phase and a statary phase. In the statary phase they remain in the same location every night.

He and I / Will watch thy waking, and that very night / Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.