The Omnibrain is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, The Omnibrain is a real graduate student at a real school somewhere in the continental United States - or maybe Europe.
OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
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Category: Popular Culture • Weird
Posted on: June 14, 2007 10:08 AM, by Sandra Kiume
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Comments
Like most advertisers, he's selling snake oil, and best of all his clients are unlikely to ask him to show evidence supporting his purported methods before paying him.
Posted by: llewelly | June 14, 2007 8:13 PM
Yeah, but it is clever of him at least. I do love conceptual art (or in this case, marketing).
Posted by: Sandra | June 14, 2007 9:42 PM