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Quanta Magazine
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In the 60s, an eccentric behavioral psychologist named James McConnell pureed a bunch of worms and fed them to other worms. For years after, he claimed that the cannibal worms learned the ground-up worms’ memories. Could he have been… right? www.quantamagazine.org/are-memories...

quantamagazine.orgAre Memories Transferable — or Edible? | Quanta MagazineIn the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic.

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Alan Jackson
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I remember seeing copies of the Worm Runner's Digest in the University library in the '70's ... There was also the made for TV movie, Hauser's Memory which was based on using an injection of RNA to recover a dead scientist's memories.