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    "id": 2696,
    "subject": "Memory RNA",
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    "first": "2001-06-26T08:51:39+00:00",
    "last": "2001-06-26T08:51:39+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0508@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul C Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at world.std.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-26T08:51:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Memory RNA",
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          "text": "My mom actually did some of those experiments with earthworms back when\nshe worked as an animal psychologist.\n\nThe effect seems to be illusory, and it is very difficult to really even\nsay a planarian has \"learned\" to run a T-maze. (Planarians are, you might\nimagine, pretty dumb, and whether they even go the \"right\" way with\ntraining is statisticly dubious.\n\nWolfe is thinking of communion too, but the Vodalian alzabo feast is\npretty much an anti-communion, innit?\n\n\"I am an impure thinker. I am hurt, swayed, shaken, |  paul           + | +\nelated, disillusioned, shocked, comforted, and I    |                 --|--\nhave to transmit my mental experiences lest I die.\" |                 + | +\n                     --  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy    |  pduggan at world.std.com"
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