{"id":159,"date":"2009-03-09T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=159"},"modified":"2009-04-01T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T13:13:02","slug":"symphonies-in-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"“Symphonies in Innocence”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cRats can become fascinating\u2014a handful of cottony, fluffy, clean-as-silk little baby ratlets, pink and white symphonies in innocence, with clean little soft paws that cling to your fingers so timidly, and tiny soft ever-inquiring little pink noses touching your skin so lightly that you know, only thus, how faeries feel.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

That was from a letter from J.B. Rhine (the man who ran the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory)\u00a0to his sister-in-law. \u00a0It\u00a0really warmed me towards him. \u00a0Who can resist someone with such tender feelings towards those small, helpless creatures? \u00a0Rhine had conducted years of experiments based on\u00a0Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theories of evolution. This is not an area I know a lot about, but I do know that Darwin’s theories have ruled the day and Lamarck’s ideas have been generally rejected. \u00a0But according to this Scientific American article<\/a>, some neuroscientists at Tufts University (my alma mater) are taking another look at Lamarck’s ideas.<\/p>\n

This is one of my favorite pictures of Rhine.<\/p>\n

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