Seven Creepy Experiments That Could Teach Us So Much (If They Weren’t So Wrong) An article from Wired (Aug 2011) on the ape man, twin splitting, womb-swapping, embryo mapping, toxic heroes, optogenetics, brain sampling,...
On the Ape Man: "Mating a human with a chimp". Isn't this how Planet of the Apes started? Oh look there's a new ape movie,
Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Reminds me also of Arthur C. Clarke's simps from Rama II.
On Light: "Researchers have engineered a benign virus that, when injected into the brain, makes the ion channels—the switches that turn cells on and off—responsive to light. By flashing focused beams into brain tissue (usually with hair-width fiber-optic strands), researchers can selectively increase or decr…