Top Thirteen Bizarre Experiments

Taken from the Museum of Hoaxes - although these experiments were not hoaxes and did actually occur! Click over to read the full accounts and the other seven experiments listed!

1. Elephants on Acid - What happens if you give an elephant LSD? On Friday August 3, 1962, a group of Oklahoma City researchers decided to find out.

2. Obedience - Imagine that you’ve volunteered for an experiment, but when you show up at the lab you discover the researcher wants you to murder an innocent person.

3. Two-headed Dogs - In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world by unveiling a surgically created monstrosity: A two-headed dog.

4. The Initiation of Heterosexual Behavior in a Homosexual Male - Test whether repeated stimulation of the septal region could transform a homosexual man into a heterosexual.

5. The Isolated Head of a Dog - What could be more horrific than creating a two-headed dog? What about keeping the severed head of a dog alive apart from its body!

6. Human-Ape Hybrid - For decades dark rumors circulated alleging that the Soviets had conducted experiments to try to create a human-ape hybrid by breeding chimpanzees and humans, but it wasn’t until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of Russian archives that the rumors were confirmed.

7. The Stanford Prison Experiment - Philip Zimbardo was curious about why prisons are such violent places. Is it because of the character of their inhabitants, or is it due to the corrosive effect of the power structure of the prisons themselves?

8. Facial expressions while decapitating a rat - In 1924 Carney Landis, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Minnesota, designed an experiment to study whether emotions evoke characteristic facial expressions.

9. The Vomit-Drinking Doctor - How far would you go to prove a theory? Stubbins Ffirth, a doctor-in-training living in Philadelphia during the early nineteenth century, went further than most. Way further.

10. Beneficial Brainwashing - Dr. Ewen Cameron believed he had come up with a cure for schizophrenia. His theory was that the brain could be reprogrammed to think in healthy ways by forcibly imposing new thought patterns on it.

11. Monkey-Head Transplant - When Vladimir Demikhov unveiled his two-headed dogs in 1954, it inspired a strange kind of surgical arms race (or rather, head race) between the two superpowers.

12. The Remote-Controlled Bull - An experimental demonstration of the ability of his “stimoceiver” to manipulate behavior. The stimoceiver was a computer chip, operated by a remote-control unit, that could be used to electrically stimulate different regions of an animal’s brain.

13. The Ape and the Child - What if an animal were raised by humans — as a human. Would it eventually act like a human?

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I was thinking of all the things I used to do as a kid that either I probably wouldn’t let my kids do these days or they would complain if they had to do it.

Thirteen “Crazy” Things I Did as a Kid

1. I walked just slightly under one mile to school. Often alone.

2. I walked to my best friend’s house, who lived three blocks away and up a big hill.

3. I walked to the neighborhood pool, a good mile or so away. Sometimes alone.

4. My brother and I walked to drugstore to buy a grilled cheese and some candy bars. It was past the school, close to two miles, I’m sure.

5. I played tag outside in the dark during the summer, running through neighbors yards.

6. I had sleepovers in basements, not up in the bedrooms.

7. I played marbles on the sewer grates. Yes, marbles.

8. I played Atari, and loved Pong. Then I played outside.

9. A friend and I would wander back in the woods, far enough that I don’t know how we found our way home.

10. I climbed trees, sometimes all the way to the roof.

11. I played kickball with friends out in the street.

12. I often stayed at the pool from when it opened to when it closed or until my lips were blue.

13. I actually used the monkey bars and swingsets in my yard.

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I’m a wee bit late today - apologies! Another time to list some favorite quotes. These all have to do with “words.”

Thirteen Quotes on Words

1. “Words are the voice of the heart.”
Confucius

2. “Men of few words are the best men.”
William Shakespeare

3. “Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “Good words are worth much and cost little.”
George Herbert

5. “When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6. “Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
William Shakespeare

7. “Eating words has never given me indigestion.”
Winston Churchill

8. “Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.”
William Henry

9. “Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker

10. “Be generous with kindly words,especially about those who are absent.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11. “By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”
Winston Churchill

12. “Words differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.”
Blaise Pascal

13. “Words are healers of the sick tempered.”
Aeschylus

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