"For success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential"

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I was the last one on the plane from Boston out to the Society for Neuroscience conference this fall, and I was asked by a curious flight attendant why everyone was carrying “those big film canisters” (poster tubes), and why on earth we didn’t just put them in checked luggage.</p>

<p>Though perhaps I was asked because, for a scientist, I happen to have pretty good hair. ;)</p>