• CorneliusTalmadge@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    “German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but an intact frog attempted to escape”

    Umm wtf.

  • plm00@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    I love the “wellll actually” section:

    …a frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Furthermore, a frog placed into already boiling water will die immediately, not jump out.[