The basic transduction mechanism is the same in the auditory and vestibular systems (See Figure 12.1). A mechanical stimulus bends the cilia of the hair cells. Fine thread-like tip links connect to trap doors in the adjacent cilium.
Tupac's mother buried her son's ashes on her farm in Lumberton, North Carolina in 2003. His grave is in Stone Mountain, GA. Tupac Shakur was cremated.
The title referenced Niccolo Machiavelli, the Italian philosopher who was rumored to have faked his own death (this has been largely disproved) and whose works Shakur studied while serving an eleven-month prison sentence in 1994. So did Tupac Shakur really die, or does he still walk among us, cloaked in a new identity? Nah, he died.