The real discovery: The web is glial

Abstract

Imagine yourself as a structural engineer. You’ve been fascinated with bridges of all kinds, styles, and sizes since you were a child. You built them with blocks, sticks, Erector sets, paper, and mashed potatoes on a regular basis until high school. In high school you joined the Bridge Builders Club and won blue ribbons with a team of other young structural enthusiasts your age for four years in a row. You easily made it into the top of your class at Old Cotcliff University and studied, of course, bridge engineering. Now you have graduated from college and have a job in an outstanding firm. This is the ideal job for you. And now, you’ve just been commissioned to build the brand new Twostockshotstoke Bridge for the wonderful city of Lake Soletownersly. As you know, when a bridge needs to be built, it is a massive project in just about every way. It is up to you and your crack team of structural engineers to successfully and safely fulfill this bridge project. Everything that it takes to turn the empty space over Lake Soletownersly (the town is named after the enormous lake) is up to you, your abilities, and your experience in this field with this type of assignment.