Re: FUN (Helen Simon )


Subject: Re: FUN
From:    Helen Simon  <helen@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:05:10 -0700
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--Apple-Mail-119-56120270 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed It was the frog whose legs were cut off. When they told him then to =20 jump, he did not move. The scientific conclusion was that if you cut off the legs of a frog, it looses =20 its hearing. On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Pawe=C5=82 Ku=C5=9Bmierek wrote: > 2009/10/12 Fred Herzfeld <herzfeld@xxxxxxxx>: >> There was a scientist who wanted to find out how important food =20 >> was to a >> beetle. He conditioned (Pavlov) a beetle to crawl toward food on =20 >> command of >> a bell. After the beetle was well trained he amputated one leg and =20= >> repeated >> the experiment. Again the beetle crawled to the food. He amputated =20= >> a second >> leg but the beetle still crawled to the food. When he amputated =20 >> the next to >> last leg the beetle with some effort crawled to the food. Then he =20 >> amputated >> the last leg. The beetle did not move. The scientist was =20 >> surprised. He wrote >> in his notebook: When all legs of a beetle are amputated it looses =20= >> its >> appetite. > > I think the scientis's conclusion was: When all legs of a beetle are > amputated it looses its HEARING. :-) Helen J. Simon, Ph.D. Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute 2318 Fillmore St San Francisco, CA 94115 415-345-2071 (office) 415-345-2008 (lab) 415-345-8455 (fax) helen@xxxxxxxx --Apple-Mail-119-56120270 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It was the frog whose legs were = cut off. =C2=A0When they told him then to jump, he did not move. =C2=A0The= scientific<div>conclusion was that if you cut =C2=A0off the legs of a = frog, =C2=A0 it =C2=A0looses its =C2=A0hearing.</div><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 12, = 2009, at 10:39 AM, Pawe=C5=82 Ku=C5=9Bmierek wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">2009/10/12 Fred Herzfeld &lt;<a = href=3D"mailto:herzfeld@xxxxxxxx">herzfeld@xxxxxxxx</a>&gt;:</div>= <blockquote type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There was a scientist who = wanted to find out how important food was to a</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">beetle. He conditioned (Pavlov) a beetle to crawl = toward food on command of</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">a bell. After = the beetle was well trained he amputated one leg and repeated</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">the experiment. Again the beetle crawled to the = food. He amputated a second</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">leg but the = beetle still crawled to the food. When he amputated the next = to</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">last leg the beetle with some effort crawled to = the food. Then he amputated</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the last leg. = The beetle did not move. The scientist was surprised. He wrote</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">in his notebook: When all legs of a beetle are = amputated it looses its</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">appetite.</div> </blockquote><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I think the scientis's = conclusion was: When all legs of a beetle are</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">amputated it looses its HEARING. :-)</div> = </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); = font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div = style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; ">Helen J. Simon, = Ph.D.</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; = ">Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute</span></div><div = style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; ">2318 Fillmore St</div><div = style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; ">San Francisco, CA=C2=A0 = 94115</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; = ">415-345-2071 (office)</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: = Helvetica; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: = Helvetica; ">415-345-2008 (lab)</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: = Helvetica; ">415-345-8455 (fax)</div><div style=3D"font-family: = Helvetica; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: = Helvetica; "><a = href=3D"mailto:helen@xxxxxxxx">helen@xxxxxxxx</a></span></div><div = style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; "><br = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-119-56120270--


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