June 04, 2008
Mad for it:
The University of Utah have created a web game where you can train as a mad scientist by demonstrating you can label and construct what looks like an alien from a 60s B-movie but is apparently a giant neuron.
For those wanting their mad neuroscientist stereotypes a little stronger, I suggest that the 1985 zombie movie Day of the Dead, where neuroscientists attempt to tame some captured zombies by meddling with their brains in an attempt to work out how to stop the hordes of the undead that are overrunning the earth.
As if you couldn't guess, the neuroscientists turn out to be sadly deluded and become victims of both the zombies and their fellow humans.
There's a moral in there somewhere, but I'm too tired to work it out, so stereotype away.
Link to 'Make a Mad, Mad, Mad Neuron' game.
