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Great way to lose an hour. Or three.
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Re: Great way to lose an hour. Or three.
#2I see a lot of interesting claims but unfortunately no references in sight.
E.g:
"Some scientists trained a bunch of flatworms to react in a special way to light. They noted how long it took the worms to learn, then they cut the worms up and fed the pieces to another batch of untrained worms. After their meal, the new worms were taught the same lesson. The second batch learned much faster. Wondering if this were a fluke (no, they were plenaria), some other scientists tried similar experimentation with mice. A batch of mice were trained to run a maze. Then their brains were removed, an extract was made from these brains and fed to another, untrained batch of mice. Once again, the new mice learned the maze much more quickly, up to twice as fast."
"German researchers trained honey bees to expect food at a certain time every day. Then they cut off the bees' heads and transplanted a part of their brains into the brains of other bees. The bees with the brain transplants then expected the food at the same time of day."
Does anyone know if this is for real?
Re: Great way to lose an hour. Or three.
#3Most of this is BS.
Re: Great way to lose an hour. Or three.
#4Most of this is BS.
I just checked one literally at random, the one about the conductor stabbing himself through the hand with his baton during a performance. It has been confirmed by Wikipedia and two other sources, although I can't vouch for Wikipedia's accuracy, nor for the independence of the sources.
One sample does not a proof make, and the pural of "anecdote" is not "data." However, some of the items do check out as true.
I personally think it's a good starting point for talking to kids and asking whether you can believe everything you read on the internet. I also find it amusing.
YMMV.
Re: Great way to lose an hour. Or three.
#5"One out of every four women fail in business. Four out of every five men fail in business."
I'd really like a source and more info on this.
Edit: looked around more. Even if most of it is true, it's too dubious and incomplete to be of any use, even if it's wasting time.
Re: Great way to lose an hour. Or three.
#6I see a lot of interesting claims but unfortunately no references in sight. E.g: "Some scientists trained a bunch of flatworms to react in a special way to light. They noted how long it took the worms to learn, then they cut the worms up and fed the pieces to another batch of untrained worms. After their meal, the new worms were taught the same lesson. The second batch learned much faster. Wondering if this were a fl…
The flatworm one is something I first heard decades ago.
The bee one is described here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/t778p74668537708/
Re: Great way to lose an hour. Or three.
#7I see a lot of interesting claims but unfortunately no references in sight. E.g: "Some scientists trained a bunch of flatworms to react in a special way to light. They noted how long it took the worms to learn, then they cut the worms up and fed the pieces to another batch of untrained worms. After their meal, the new worms were taught the same lesson. The second batch learned much faster. Wondering if this were a fl…
Okay, but what happens if you feed brain extract from trained flatworms to mice (or the reverse). Same with bees (on either side).
I'd expect no effect, but I'd expect some effect in related species (if there's actually an effect in the same species).
Then again, I think that the mice result is more surprising than the flatworm result, so my "expectations" are worth what you paid.
Re: Great way to lose an hour. Or three.
#8I see a lot of interesting claims but unfortunately no references in sight. E.g: "Some scientists trained a bunch of flatworms to react in a special way to light. They noted how long it took the worms to learn, then they cut the worms up and fed the pieces to another batch of untrained worms. After their meal, the new worms were taught the same lesson. The second batch learned much faster. Wondering if this were a fl…
No references?