My latest! I promise this story has everything: cannibalism, memory transfers, generational scientific controversy, unbelievable 60s worm cartoons—even the Unabomber makes a brief appearance.
Claire L. Evans
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...
In 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.
