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IN THE NAME OF

SCIENCE

Back from the dead

Bringing the dead back to life was the goal
of American researcher Robert Cornish. In
1934, he revived a dead dog named Lazarus
using drugs and a type of seesaw to get the
dog
Scientists routinely carry treats blood circulating. But when he asked to try
out experiments to see if their the technique on a death-row prisoner, he
found he was barking up the wrong tree.
theories are correct or not.
But some scientists have taken
this to the extreme. Today, for
only one day, we’ve put on view
eight of the oddest, freakiest,
and downright scariest
experiments conducted
in the name of science.

Web designers
Spiders instinctively weave perfect
webs to catch insects. In 1948,
German scientist Peter Witt
Expressions and decapitations discovered that giving drugs to
spiders made them weave abnormal
In 1924, American psychologist Carney Landis
wanted to discover if emotions such as disgust, webs. He then spent a lifetime
showing how different drugs
shock, and joy produced the same facial expressions
in different people. He photographed volunteers as altered a spider’s web design.
they were exposed to various experiences, including
asking them to decapitate a live rat!

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