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Forum Science Needs more brains

Needs more brains
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10:08 am
March 4, 2011


sheila

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The brain to necrotic flesh ratio needs fixing. here is brain link service.

fluffy news talking heads piece but with pictures of brains and thousands and thousands of tupperware containers:
BBC Health Check: Brain bank collection

fun science blog post with brain parasite action: Return of the brain-controlling zombie-ant parasitic fungi

2:29 pm
March 4, 2011


Hljothlegur

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Post edited 2:30 pm – March 4, 2011 by Hljothlegur

Ah, brains in buckets.  That takes me back.

3:40 pm
March 6, 2011


Andrea_A

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It seems that Rhesus monkeys (failing Mirror Test), have some degree of self-awareness:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/re…..171739.htm

And I'm glad that this has been published in an Open Access journal …

http://www.plosone.org/article…..ne.0012865
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