This is a gross violation of my expectations: the Halloween edition of The Synapse doesn't even once crack a zombie joke. I was terribly disappointed.
At least it does serve up a nice platter of brains.

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The Synapse #2 is up at A Blog Around the Clock.
Wasn't here to mention it yesterday, but the Synapse #4 is available at Neurotopia.
I posted a couple months ago about neuron to glia (in this case oligodendrocyte) synapses in the hippocampus, and how researchers had shown that these synapses were capable of LTP.
Earlier this month, ScienceBloggers Jake Young of Pure Pedantry and Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle got to talking about how, given how many neuro-philes now blog at Sb, it could be fun to star
The classic zombie joke from the movie, "The Ghost Breakers"...
Scientist: "A zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes, walking around blindly, with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring."
Bob Hope: "You mean like Democrats?"
Favorite zombie joke:
What do vegan zombies eat? Graaaaaaainsss...
Here's a link to Alton Brown's instructions on how to make a panna cotta in the shape of a brain (complete with raspberry sauce). Tasty and disturbing, all at once!
http://tinyurl.com/6srz3
Aha! When I followed the link, I realized that Steve's brain receipe is adapted from Alton's.
I can see a pomegranate glaze being tastier than the original cranberry (not raspberry, as I mistakenly said).
mmm, Kuru...
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Grendelkhan, I totally stole your joke. Hilarious!
Anybody seen the zombie blog? Got to be your blog o' the day at least once a year!