100 brains go missing from Texas university

[n2doc]

The University of Texas at Austin is missing about 100 brains — about half of the specimens the university had in a collection preserved in jars of formaldehyde.

One of the missing brains is believed to have come from 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.”

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http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/03/100-brains-go-missing-from-university

[leftofcool]

1. Impossible! There are no..................

Nope! I'm not gonna say it. This arrogant, smug, OU/Sooner graduate and fan is just going to keep her mouth shut, lest I offend my DU Texas brother and sisters.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

4. Speaking as a Harvard man

I rightfully sneer at the mental capabilities of UT people AND Sooners. Heck, Yalies are clearly second rate.

[leftofcool]

7. LOL!

[n2doc]

12. Thurston!

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[Fortinbras Armstrong]

13. Ah. Documentary footage.

And entirely typical of the breed.

[HubertHeaver]

15. My first thought:

Can't be A&M--there's never been 100 brains there, total.

[Sherman A1]

2. Young Frankenstein comes to

"Mind".............

[CurtEastPoint]

5. "Abby...Somebody"

[longship]

9. Ahhh-Yup!

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

14. I remember my dear old dad

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

3. Zombies?

<voice="slow drawl">"Brains ..."</voice>

[Scuba]

6. For once, Rick Perry is not a suspect.

[leftofcool]

8. Now, now, we don't really know that yet.

Ya know, since Perry doesn't have a brain of his own, his stealing one is pretty suspect to me.

[JDDavis]

10. Actually, several million brains are missing in that state

But who's counting, except on election days, when all the brainless seem to get out to vote.

[AlbertCat]

11. God ...what a set up that headline is!

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