About 100 brains missing from University of Texas

AP via Yahoo ^ | 12/02/2014 | AP

[DFG]

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 (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.

[SMARTY]

THAT is the kind of expression you make when you are saying “Duhhhh”

[Delta Dawn]

That would be 101 brains, would it not be?

[JimRed]

That’s most of the faculty and teaching support staff, but then who expects professors to have a brain anyway?

[Red Badger]

[DainBramage]

Hey just sayin!

[Morgana]

Now are these brains of live people or cadavers?

[Slings and Arrows]

Good point - better check the English faculty for suspicious incisions.

[smokingfrog]

Rick Perry will be glad to hear this.

Just kidding..

[smokingfrog]

University of Texas Says It Can Account for Missing Brain Specimens

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/us/university-texas-austin-brains-missing.html?referrer=

[Slings and Arrows]

Lucy, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!