Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question since 1962, when University of Michigan Psychologist James McConnell reported that untrained flatworms could acquire knowledge by feasting on trained worms. Using rats and mice, some researchers have achieved experimental results that seem to prove statistically that learning, or memory, can indeed be transferred by injecting the brain extract of one animal into the brain of another. But since the tests were difficult to duplicate, the results could never be properly validated. Now a Baylor University scientist, writing in Nature, has reported an experiment that could help resolve the controversy...
...Ungar concluded that the fear had indeed been transferred and that the degree of transfer depended on the amount of extract injected. It was also affected by the training of the donor rats-longer training produced better transfer-and the interval between training and removal of the donor-rat brain; brain removal too soon after training apparently prevented the transfer material from fully developing...
University of Chicago Psychiatrist Jerome Jaffe says flatly that he has neither seen nor heard of any admissions to mental wards that seemed to result from marijuana. But he concedes that there may be mental or brain damage from long-continued, high-dosage use of more potent cannabis preparations such as hashish...
...date has come remotely near Odyssey's depiction of the limitless beauty and terror of outer space. In this 2-hr. 40-min. movie, only 47 minutes are taken up with dialogue. The rest of the time is occupied with demanding, brilliant material for the eye and brain. Thus, though it may fail as drama, the movie succeeds as visual art and becomes another irritating, dazzling achievement of Stanley Kubrick, one of the most erratic and original talents in U.S. cinema...
...genial, so temperate, the puppet-dance of "humanoid" and "celluloid" but never the anarchy of unmeaning ragged syllables. Is it unfair to ask for a little brain spread on the table...