[caption id=attachment_417 align=alignleft width=300 caption=East River, Manhattan] [/caption]Throughout Sandy, I was cooped up in my apartment in northern Manhattan with my son Benjamin, who was studying for a medical school exam on the cranial nerves. I drilled him through endless lists, ocularmotor nerve (cranial III), hypoglossal (cranial XII), and so on. a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=science-lesson-during-sandy-scary-pimples[More]/a