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The University of Texas at Austin is missing about 100 brains ? about half of the specimens the university had in a collection of brains preserved in jars of formaldehyde.
One of the missing brains is believed to have belonged to clock tower sniper Charles Whitman.
"We think somebody may have taken the brains, but we don't know at all for sure," psychology Professor Tim Schallert, co-curator of the collection, told the Austin American-Statesman ( http://bit.ly/11R7vym ).
His co-curator, psychology Professor Lawrence Cormack, said, "It's entirely possible word got around among undergraduates and people started swiping them for living rooms or Halloween pranks."
The Austin State Hospital had transferred the brains to the university about 28 years ago under a "temporary possession" agreement. Schallert said his psychology lab had room for only 100 brains, so the rest were moved to the basement of the university's Animal Resources Center.
http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/100-brains-missing-university-texas-27322422
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Probably experimenting on new ways to create more amoral online personas for the corporate propaganda machine.
longship
(40,416 posts)badtoworse
(5,957 posts)Action_Patrol
(845 posts)I remember reading that Whitman asked for his brain to be researched because even though he knew what he was doing was wrong, he felt that he had to do it and wanted his body researched afterwards.
The time-line for that massacre is pretty crazy.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Its location was in the area of the brain thought to control strong emotions.
Action_Patrol
(845 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Did someone call for a recount?
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)THAT is the first symptom of a missing brain -- the not knowing part.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)(but wow my posture is poor.)