First Aired August, 2023:

A series of scientific studies to understand the human mind, but using a slimy gastropod in our place.

Because using meth on a human is illegal.

I got today’s information from

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/snails-memory-molecules-spd

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vww3/scientists-are-repeatedly-fucking-with-snails-memory

https://www.livescience.com/62559-snail-memory-rna-transfer.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/memory-transferred-between-snails-challenging-standard-theory-of-how-the-brain-remembers/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/science/memory-transfer-snails.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/2596/#:~:text=Scientists%20Made%20Snails%20Remember%20Something,remembered%20the%20trained%20snails'%20experiences.

https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-have-managed-to-erase-memories-in-a-snails-brain-42331

https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs3/3981/index.htm

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/09/snails

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