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Article #1275Re: Forgotten Entities: Do You Remember Any?
From: Larry Lippman
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 21:01
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 21:01
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In article <3870@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky) writes:
> Protoplasm. The stuff inside cells. It was a big thing when I went
> to grade school. Do they still talk about it?
I've got one better: ectoplasm (the "spiritual" variety, that is).
While I cannot recall the specific sources, I have seen photographs
of alleged ectoplasm in books, replete with a chemical analysis which
puported to show epithelial cells.
Epithelial cells, my nose! :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!kitty!larry From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.chem Subject: Re: Forgotten Entities: Do You Remember Any? Summary: Better than "protoplasm"... Keywords: protoplasm Message-ID: <4155@kitty.UUCP> Date: 30 Oct 90 21:01:17 GMT References: <1990Oct25.232546.12357@portia.Stanford.EDU> <3870@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY Lines: 15