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Look! There's a hole in your head!
Category: History of Science • Neuroscience
Posted on: June 13, 2007 3:06 AM, by Coturnix
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off topic, but mr. wizard died tuesday...
Posted by: skippy | June 13, 2007 3:45 AM
Still OT: Wow, he died! I thought about him last week, when people were covering the paper folding myth. He did an episode on that - I'm sad to say that he bought into the myth though. I actually thought he was already dead. :-(
Posted by: Voodoo | June 13, 2007 8:07 AM
No He is NOT dead. He will live forever in our hearts!
Posted by: J-Dog | June 13, 2007 9:27 AM