Luckily for us (and for the authors of that paper), it also provides much matter for hilarity.
It really makes me wish I could draw. The natural next step from this sentence—"During the period from 1959 through 1964, he received more than $150,000 (in 1960s dollars) from the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Institute of Mental Health designated specifically for the planarian work"—is obviously a webcomic about telepathic radioactive flatworms that share information by eating one another's brains.
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It really makes me wish I could draw. The natural next step from this sentence—"During the period from 1959 through 1964, he received more than $150,000 (in 1960s dollars) from the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Institute of Mental Health designated specifically for the planarian work"—is obviously a webcomic about telepathic radioactive flatworms that share information by eating one another's brains.