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My talk at PINC conference: spiders on drugs, the common cold myth and the real difference between men and women (you knew it all along...)
| Posted on December 6, 2010 at 9:22 AM |
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A talk I gave at the PINC conference 2005 in Holland. It's about experiments inspired by the bible, about spiders on drugs and the question: how much does the soul weigh?
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