Remote control brains: a neuroscience revolution


	Remote control brains: a neuroscience revolution

joaoB

7-23-2007 2:30 PM

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7-24-2007 1:23 PM

gwendolyn

Ok... so here's this worm, and he's all happy and stuff, doing his worm thing. Then one day, out of the blue, lights start going off and his muscles start jerking him around. What do ya wanna bet he's thinking "WTF!?!"

I hope he wasn't about to lay a Joey line down on a girl worm. "Hey. How yu doin --- hey, hey!! What the -?"

7-24-2007 10:34 PM

lode_43

lol poor worm. humans are next.

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