Jun 17
6 min read
Pig Brains and Butterfly Goo
The strange science of life, death, and consciousness
Thirty-two dead pigs woke up in a lab without their bodies — or, rather, their brain cells did.
The experiment happened in 2019, at the early stages of the pandemic. Researchers went round to a food processing plant and asked to have the discarded heads of slaughtered pigs. Four hours later, they…
