University of Copenhagen

She's a professor at the University of Rochester in New York, where she's co-director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine.

And she's also a professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

And in 2012, she and her colleagues described the glymphatic system for the first time.

So who better to talk to us about it than the discoverer?

These act like your body's homemade defense mechanism.

In 2010, a researcher at the University of Copenhagen showed that your T cells, the special forces of your immune system, essentially need vitamin D to be switched on.

Without enough of it, they tend to stay asleep.

The same year, a randomized trial in Japan gave school children either 1,200 units of vitamin D3 a day or a placebo through the winter.

If I was sane, you wouldn't listen anyway.

Anyway, the University of Copenhagen, hook them eagles.

That's the motto.

The school's been around since 1479, so they got quite a few records on hand.

After a little time, it would seem that the parents acquiesced in the loss, and thus it was in Uncle George's home that the future astronomer passed his childhood.

When we read that Tycho was no more than thirteen years old at the time he entered the University of Copenhagen, it might at first be supposed that even in his boyish years he must have exhibited some of those remarkable talents with which he was afterwards to astonish the world.

Such an inference should not, however, be drawn.

The fact is that in those days it was customary for students to enter the universities at a much earlier age than is now the case.

It so happened, however, that a Latin version of Ptolemy's astronomical works had appeared a few years before the eclipse took place, and Tycho managed to buy a copy of this book, which was then the chief authority on celestial matters.

Young as the boy astronomer was, he studied hard, although perhaps not always successfully, to understand Ptolemy, and to this day his copy of the great work, copiously annotated and marked by the schoolboy hand, is preserved as one of the chief treasures in the library of the university at Prague.

After Tycho had studied for about three years at the University of Copenhagen, his uncle thought it would be better to send him, as was usual in those days, to complete his education by a course of study in some foreign university.

The uncle cherished the hope that in this way the attention of the young astronomer might be withdrawn from the study of the stars and directed in what appeared to him a more useful way.

He was on TWIM a long time ago.

So this comes from Columbia University, University of Copenhagen.

And this is interesting.

The Basque Foundation for Science and the University of the Basque Country in Spain.