The rod!

Daughter of a horsefly!

Give me the rod!

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

This pretty fly

Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

Give me the rod, quick!

Hitch up the wagons.

The fly is going to sense this predator.

But of the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

There is a phallus, clear acrylic phallus, with a camera and a light source, attached to a motor that is kind of going like this.

It's called the Quadro 2000 Dowser Rod.

So for the first time we've actually been able to record from neurons in the fly's brain while the fly is performing sophisticated behaviors such as flight.

It looks sort of like a fly.

You can tether a fly to a little stick.

A world fit for mammals. From tiny shrews came tenrecs, accustomed to the dark.

When I've brushed this fly off, I'll give you a dusting for good measure.

I'm not even gonna swat that fly.

They trained the escape reflex that makes the fly jump into the air and fly away whenever you move your hand in position.

This fly has a mighty sting, friend.

Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

It's specialized to generate the enormous power required for flight, and it fills the middle portion of the fly, so when a fly hits your windshield, it's basically the power muscle that you're looking at.

The green trace at the bottom is the membrane potential of a neuron in the fly's brain, and you'll see the fly start to fly, and the fly is actually controlling the rotation of that visual pattern itself by its own wing motion, and you can see this visual interneuron respond to the pattern of wing motion as the fly flies.

But the behavior of the fly on the left is very different.

If you'd given me the rod, I would have caught him.

A mouse has about 1,000 times as many neurons as a fly.

The fool's talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots

A world fit for mammals. From tiny shrews came tenrecs, accustomed to the dark.

But this is just one of many neuromodulators that's in the fly's brain.

Now consider a situation in which the motors stay off, the fly continues on its path and it suffers some painful consequence such as getting zapped.

Construction of a magnetic compass Magnetic needle A magnetic rod is required when constructing a compass.

Cohenite is found in rod like crystals in iron meteorites.

Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.

Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,

The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

In the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a redhot poker.