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Get Your New Neurons Here! (In Plush)

Category: Tastes Like Neuroscience
Posted on: February 11, 2008 5:04 PM, by Shelley Batts

Ok, ok, I know I'm supposed to be on hiatus here. But how could I resist posting this adorable plush neuron? Waaaaay better than a teddy bear, in my opinion.

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I must resist the urge to make cuddly neural nets out of dozens of them...

via ModCloth (and Giant Microbes)

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1

Someone who knows me too well gave me one for christmas. Good fun.

Posted by: Johan | February 11, 2008 6:27 PM

2

The best part:

Products 1 x Brain Cell $7.99

Let's see, can I get a bulk discount on say 9,000 a day for the next 70 years?

Posted by: Aaron | February 11, 2008 8:34 PM

3

The spirit of the age - the ZEITGEIST - is stuffed toys!

(what are we coming to?)

But I admit I want one :)

Posted by: CHCH | February 12, 2008 9:47 AM

4

You have got to be the Queen of all geeks.
How cool.

Posted by: hawk | February 15, 2008 8:28 AM

5

Does it come with glia?

Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | February 15, 2008 11:18 AM

6

At the Miami Museum of Science I saw a comfy couch covered with small, stuffed dinosaurs, all carefully sewn on. It looked great. You could do that with ",neurons."

Posted by: Monado, FCD | February 22, 2008 11:58 AM

7

One of my (adult) sons gave me a stuffed Red Blood Cell for a [generic-year-end-celebration] gift. I was careful to keep it a safe distance away from the stuffed Ebola Virus he gave to his brother.

Posted by: Theo Bromine | February 22, 2008 10:58 PM

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At the Miami Museum of Science I saw a comfy couch covered with small, stuffed dinosaurs, all carefully sewn on. It looked great. You could do that with ",neurons."

Posted by: Monado, FCD | February 22, 2008 11:58 AM

If you had a big enough couch you could make a sewn super brain!
Dave Briggs :~)

Posted by: Dave Briggs | February 27, 2008 11:27 AM

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