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Amy
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posted 23 October 2004 11:31 PM      Profile for Amy   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
University of Florida News

"GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida scientist has grown a living “brain” that can fly a simulated plane, giving scientists a novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network.

The “brain” -- a collection of 25,000 living neurons, or nerve cells, taken from a rat’s brain and cultured inside a glass dish -- gives scientists a unique real-time window into the brain at the cellular level. By watching the brain cells interact, scientists hope to understand what causes neural disorders such as epilepsy and to determine noninvasive ways to intervene."

woah!


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Hephaestion
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posted 24 October 2004 12:24 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Growing a BRAIN?!?!

Get this info over to FD, stat!


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Reality. Bites.
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posted 24 October 2004 01:52 AM      Profile for Reality. Bites.        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Unless it's made compulsary, I don't think it will help them.
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Gir Draxon
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posted 24 October 2004 09:00 PM      Profile for Gir Draxon     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, if the GOP gets on board with this research, maybe there IS hope for the world even if Bush is re-elected
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Reality. Bites.
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posted 24 October 2004 09:15 PM      Profile for Reality. Bites.        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
And if he isn't, Texas is going to separate and he'll be president.

http://goldengirls03.org/Texas_Future.htm

(Hit the stop button in your browser to turn off the annoying loud music)


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Gir Draxon
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posted 25 October 2004 01:49 AM      Profile for Gir Draxon     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by RealityBites:
And if he isn't, Texas is going to separate and he'll be president.

http://goldengirls03.org/Texas_Future.htm

(Hit the stop button in your browser to turn off the annoying loud music)


Glad to see that idiodic short-sighted seperatism is not limited to Alberta...


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Reality. Bites.
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posted 25 October 2004 09:01 AM      Profile for Reality. Bites.        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
More like the "I'm federalist as long as the country votes as I wish" espoused by (BC resident) Springer.

I have a feeling though, that this Texas separatism has even less widespread appeal than Alberta separatism.

I found "You won't have any TV as the Space Center in Houston will cut off your communications" to be particularly funny. Surely they of all people would understand that satellites are a mere convenience and Americans could always wear tinfoil hats instead.


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