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Girl with half a brain becomes fluent in two languages
news.telegraph.co.uk ^
| 23/05/2002
| Hannah Cleaver and David Derbyshire
Posted on 05/23/2002 3:51:29 PM PDT by Hellmouth
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She's doing more than a lot of people on a full brain...
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posted on
05/23/2002 3:51:29 PM PDT
by
Hellmouth
To: Hellmouth
This just goes to show how
little we really know about the complex biological life all around us. This flies in the face of what is taught in biology and psychology classes today (or at least, when I had them in '97). Truly amazing...
:) ttt
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posted on
05/23/2002 3:57:05 PM PDT
by
detsaoT
To: Hellmouth
a dynamic system fully capable of functional reorganisation Evidently conscious did not reside in the half of the brain that was removed. Or not entirely. That elusive consciousness, which lobe contains that?
To: Hellmouth
Can she walk and chew gum at the same time?
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posted on
05/23/2002 3:58:25 PM PDT
by
Nitro
To: Nitro
hahahaha...I was thinking that I worked with this girl.
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posted on
05/23/2002 3:59:25 PM PDT
by
dakine
To: Hellmouth
I've half a mind to sign up for the same procedure myself!
To: Hellmouth
I find this story to be ... uhm ... err ... what's the word? AMAZING! That's it!!
To: dakine
You realize of course, we are both going to Hell for that!!
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posted on
05/23/2002 4:01:29 PM PDT
by
Nitro
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To: Nitro
Nah, I think he has a sense of humor, you ever see a duck-billed platypus?
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posted on
05/23/2002 4:04:33 PM PDT
by
dakine
To: RightWhale
That elusive consciousness, which lobe contains that?A profound question - and after I return from the store for some dinner, I may post a thread that deals with this...
To: Hellmouth
Fearfully and wonderfully made.
To: Hellmouth
Rush has had half of his brain tied behind his back for years.
If raised as a Democrat, maybe this little girl will end up being the Great Liberal Hope to break into talk radio.
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posted on
05/23/2002 4:11:34 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
To: dakine
As a matter of fact I have, not in person mind you as I have never been to Australia!
They don't have pouches too, do they... I mean being water-borne?
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posted on
05/23/2002 4:14:43 PM PDT
by
Nitro
To: Nitro
"They don't have pouches too, do they... I mean being water-borne?"
They lay eggs if I remember correctly...
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posted on
05/23/2002 4:16:26 PM PDT
by
dakine
To: RightWhale
That elusive consciousness, which lobe contains that? It's all in your mind.
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posted on
05/23/2002 4:17:14 PM PDT
by
mlo
To: Senator Pardek
While you're out, rent the movie called "The Man Who Faced Southeast." The lobe reference comes from that.
To: matamoros
ROFL!
To: dakine
I've "quenched" a few, plus I haven't seen any Platypus shows lately...
but I knew there was an incongruity...
and as you mentioned they are the only mammals that lay eggs!
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posted on
05/23/2002 4:22:57 PM PDT
by
Nitro
To: Nitro
See we're safe, hell, I don't think they want to let me loose down there!
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posted on
05/23/2002 4:24:37 PM PDT
by
dakine
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