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Samples from the popular science menu:

  • PUNKY WAS A SALAMANDER. Or at least he had the body of a salamander. But his cranium housed the brains of a frog. [To main article!] --from Harper's
  • HOLOGRAMIC MIND...Suddenly, from nowhere, suspended in cosmic black space before me, there appeared a dissected human brain. But I knew for a certainty that the specimen could not possibly be there. [To main article!] -- from Quest/77
  • picture of the Triclops TRICLOPS! His name alone is enough to tell you he wasn't exactly pretty, not to look at, anyway. Like the sea, his content wasn't obvious from the surface. Yet the extra eye on his head, or more precisely its effect on his learning rate, gave my partner, Carl Schneider and me a glimpse at a dimension of intelligence neither of us had been educated to suspect. [To main article!] -- original to Shufflebrain
  • MICROMINDS... [T]hough they possess not a single neuron, [microbes'] "thought processes" may have much in common with your thought processes and mine.[To main article!] -- from Science Digest
  • SPLITTING THE HUMAN BRAIN... Cutting apart the two hemispheres of the human brain is a drastic step, and it is one of the most controversial operations ever performed. [To main article!] --syndicated feature
  • BRAIN SHRINKS, YET THINKS ... the walls of the cerebrum are [usually] 4-5 millimeters thick. This man's cerebrum had been squashed by fluid pressure ... to a thickness of less than one millimeter... But he was socially normal, had an IQ of 126 and had earned a first class honors degree in mathematics. [To main article] -- from Science Digest
  • MUSICAL BRAIN SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE and whether your pockets fill with rye or corn, one side of your brain dishes up the lyrics while the other is supposed to pipe in the music ... newer findings suggest, the story may be more complicated. [To main article] -- syndicated feature
  • The transplant alone [gave] the animal the necessary memory. Neither the part of the brain, nor the site in the host's cranium changed the results. [To main article] -- from Harper's
  • BRAIN SWAPPING...WHERE IN THE BODY DOES THE MIND RESIDE? [To main article!] -- Science Digest
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