Am I the only one who'd never heard of Nauta until recently?

[Talitha]

And while I'm in here, has anyone noticed that red is the predominant color onstage at MSNBC? Looks trumpy.

[LuckyCharms]

1. You're not alone.

I had to research who he was a few days ago because I kept seeing his name, but had never heard of him before.

[Skittles]

2. not alone

I certainly would have remembered the name WALTINE

[Cha]

3. I didn't.. but I don't

have a tv. I looked him up when I saw his name mentioned here.

[Xavier Breath]

4. Nauta familiar name to me.

[RockRaven]

5. I seem to recall hearing that he was taking his (diet coke) valet w/ him when he left the WH,

and that the guy was going to be a PAC employee. As for the guy's name, it might have been included but I certainly didn't care to notice at the time.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

6. Why would any of us have heard of some Mierda Lardo

Flunky before now?

I don't know the name of the golf pro at the golf resort down the street from me, and probably never will because that's way outside my tax bracket. Plus, I think golf is bloody stupid.

For the vast majority of us who have never been to Mal-de-Loco, and never would have gone there even if we could afford it, why would any of us know he existed, unless he drew attention to himself somehow--like he did here?

[Sgent]

8. He is from the White House

not Mara Lago.

He was one of the Navy stewards assigned to the President who took his retirement to go work for Trump.

[Tanuki]

7. I read about him some months ago, which I remember because his name

is so similar to that of the pioneering neuroanatomist Walle Nauta, considered a founder of modern neuroscience. In addition to being a distinguished scientist, Walle Nauta was an exemplary human being and a "righteous gentile" who along with his wife secretly harbored a Jewish teenage girl in their apartment in Holland during WW2.

https://news.mit.edu/1994/nauta-0330

"Dr. Walle J.H. Nauta, Institute Professor emeritus and one of the world's leading authorities on the anatomy of the brain, died March 24, in Mt. Auburn Hospital. He was 77 and lived in Newton. He had been hospitalized a few days with a blood infection, a family member said.

Dr. Nauta, one of the founders of the modern field of neuroscience, made singular contributions to the understanding of the structure and connectivity of the brain.

Some 40 years ago, he developed techniques that enabled experimenters to trace fiber connections in the brain. He and other researchers used the method to chart systems in the forebrain of the mammalian species, in particular the limbic systems and the corpus striatum.

Later he and his colleagues at MIT experimented with new technical approaches involving the use of enzymatic and radioactive tracer substances in the analysis of fiber connections in the brain.

According to his colleagues and family, Dr. Nauta remained particularly proud of the stain he developed-the Nauta Silver Impregnation Method-to trace degenerating nerve fibers. In the book, Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing Methods, Professor Lennart Heimer wrote that the method and its various modifications "breathed new life into neuroanatomy and were fundamental to the subsequent development of the neurosciences in general."

When The Neurosciences Research Program awarded Dr. Nauta the F.O. Schmitt Medal and Prize in Neuroscience for 1983, it said that he "devised new experimental methods that... established systems neuroanatomy as a leading discipline in neuroscience... He more than any other has created the modern science of neuroanatomy."

Dr. Nauta was born in 1916 in Medan, Indonesia. He attended the University of Leyden in the Netherlands from 1934 to 1941, and received an MD degree in 1942 and a PhD in anatomy and neurophysiology in 1945 from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

During World War II, from 1940 until the time the Netherlands was liberated by the Allies in 1945, Dr. Nauta and his wife, Ellie, hid a teenage Jewish girl while living in a one and one-half room apoartment with their own children.". (More)