33 years of human work went into mapping a brain smaller than a poppy seed.
This is all of it, every one of its 139,255 neurons.
1 female fruit fly was sliced into 7,050 layers, each thinner than a virus, then shot in 21 million photos.
AI traced the cells, and humans checked every wire by hand: scientists, students and gamers clicking for fun.
The final map:
139,255 neurons
54.5M synapses
8,453 cell types
150 meters of wire folded into 1 speck
No one had mapped a full adult brain before, not a mouse and not a human. A fly went first.
In September 2026, Janelia and Google released the male, with 166,700 neurons mapped from brain to legs through an intact neck.
2 weeks later, the internet put the fly to work:
It played Doom
It flew a simulated drone with zero training
It landed a simulated rocket 60 times out of 80
It wrote LinkedIn posts
But the map only shows where the wires go, not how strong each one is. It has no voltages and no timing, like a circuit diagram with no values on it.
Nobody knows what the fly is thinking, and it posts on LinkedIn anyway.
It took 33 person-years to map 1 fly, and your head holds 617,000 of them.
@mrfishspit@Warcraft America is the Alliance, Horde is the Taliban. Everyone knows this
Here are additional slurs we've invented for horde races:
Kodo jockey
Greenbacks
Mudhutter
Zugger
Dust Monkey
Axe Dragger
Totem Tipper
Dark Portal Deportees
Lawnmowers
Bonebacks
Coffindodgers
You genuinely have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.
There's a documented case of a 7-year-old girl with 82 warts, present for over a year and unresponsive to every standard dermatological treatment.
As a last resort, hypnosis was used.
Under hypnosis, she was told the facial warts would clear before the ones on her body. Two weeks later, 8 of her 16 facial warts were gone, with no change anywhere else. After three more sessions, all 82 had vanished.
And cases like this are more common than you would think.