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- From: dddawson@lpl.arizona.edu (Doug Dawson)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: I don't get 10/28 Far Side
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.044608.4956@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 04:46:08 GMT
- References: <BxBI83.Iy1@ars2.uucp> <1992Nov20.205610.3803@GTEtele.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.205610.3803@GTEtele.com> hewitt@GTEtele.com (Mark Hewitt) writes:
- >: In <Bx5Kp0.E6K@wang.com> dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
- >:
- >:
- >: >I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
- >: >shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
- >: >and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
- >:
- >: >I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
- >: >skipped over in my life.
- >:
- >: >Thanks in advance for the clue.
- >:
- >: >Dave
- >
- >
- >Uhh...guess nobody reads Asmiov around here.
- >
- >"Broca's Brain" is the title of a science fiction novel.
- >
- Um...no. "Broca's Brain" is the title of a collection of science
- essays by Carl Sagan (though "Donovan's Brain" _is_ a science fiction
- novel). As I recall the title essay, Broca worked on studying the
- brain (the language centers, I think), and after his death, his brain
- was pickled and put in a jar in a science museum, where Sagan happened
- to run across it one day.
-