By Emma Brownlee

Emma Brownlee is a graduate student at UBC, studying marine viruses (it's okay to look confused here). She enjoys traveling immensely, wishes she could do more of it, and has decided that The Lonely Planet Thailand edition is one of the most important books ever written.

EXCERPT FROM THE LONELY PLANET’S GUIDE TO THE HUMAN BODY: NERVE CELL CITY

Nerve Cell City Nerve Cell City, affectionately know to residents as NCC, lies along the great Trans-Spinal Highway. As such, it is a crossroads for endless traffic, mainly in the information industry. Many of the city’s inhabitants work in this field, and keep the Highway running smoothly for the benefit of other cities along its path (see Muscleton, page 160, and Retinaville, page 392, for examples). NCC is one of the oldest cities in the Human Body, and can date its earliest records to within a year of the Human Body’s conception. NCC is a very unusual city in this…

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