" The Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information is an independent, non-profit research organization of ranking scientists. Its East Coast campus is located an hour from New York City in Holland township, New Jersey. Overlooking a truly panoramic expanse of the Delaware River Valley, it is a 112-acre haven for scholars of all disciplines, but the sciences in particular. Founded by Dr. B. Banzai in 1972 to fulfill a need of the scholarly community for greater continuity of research, the Institute supports scientific endeavours in many fields that would otherwise go unfunded. The Institute is a not-for-profit corporation, supported primarily by royalties donated by its researchers from commercial applications of Institute-sponsored work. Many top scientists seek to work at the Institute, subject to a rigorous selection process. If a candidate is approved by the board, he is given a key, a small monthly stipend, and a Spartan cell without electricity or running water, where he sleeps on a straw mat atop a wooden bunk. It is not the sort of place for everyone, and yet hundreds more apply than are accepted, among them some of the finest minds in the world."
--From the Banzai Institute--
