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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) 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.
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.
"They are no longer in the basement," Cormack said.
http://news.yahoo.com/100-brains-missing-university-texas-020236528.html;_ylt=AwrBT892h35UUCQAx39XNyoA
Turbineguy
(37,364 posts)the intellectual capacity of the entire state's republican party!
pscot
(21,024 posts)It's probably only about 40%
Paulie
(8,462 posts)Inquiring brains want to know.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)orleans
(34,072 posts)"We think somebody may have taken the brains, but we don't know at all for sure,"
are you freaking kidding? shit! maybe they all just got up and walked away
maybe rats ate them
if anyone in charge of stupid university of stupid texas had HALF a brain they would have kept track of this fucking "collection"
shame on them!!