RE: [tips] For Your Next Lab Class: How To Build Your Own Cyborg Cockroach

2013-06-14 Thread Marc Carter
You can put them in the freezer for ten minutes or so and get the same effect as the ice water, but more easily. It takes a lot to kill a roach. I used to hunt them with a bb gun (in So. Texas -- the giant palmetto bugs). The ricocheting bbs did, however, take a toll on the walls that my

RE: [tips] For Your Next Lab Class: How To Build Your Own Cyborg Cockroach

2013-06-14 Thread Mike Palij
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:31:31 -0700, Marc Carter wrote: Lipstick on a pig. It's always and ever going to be a cockroach, no matter how robocopy you make it. I have horror stories, and we kept a very clean house when I was living down there. Those things are NOT to be trifled with.

RE: [tips] For Your Next Lab Class: How To Build Your Own Cyborg Cockroach

2013-06-14 Thread Jim Clark
From: Marc Carter [marc.car...@bakeru.edu] Sent: June-14-13 10:35 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] For Your Next Lab Class: How To Build Your Own Cyborg Cockroach Starship Troopers: loved the book, hated the movie -- too much

Re: [tips] For Your Next Lab Class: How To Build Your Own Cyborg Cockroach

2013-06-14 Thread MiguelRoig
- From: Jim Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 11:55:15 AM Subject: RE: [tips] For Your Next Lab Class: How To Build Your Own Cyborg Cockroach Hi Now that Marc has revealed his moral lapses

RE: [tips] For Your Next Lab Class: How To Build Your Own Cyborg Cockroach

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Palij
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:55:22 -0700, Jim Clark wrote: [snip] ...Another interesting observation was that there did not appear to be any matter excreted by the cockroach during the entire time, at least as far as I remember. Do insects in general or cockroaches in particular excrete waste matter?

Re: [tips] For Your Next Lab Class: How To Build Your Own Cyborg Cockroach

2013-06-13 Thread Carol DeVolder
OK, although this looks really interesting, I have one question: Don't most people think cockroaches are super icky? On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote: For those of you who are handy working with electronic components and doing surgery on large bugs, here's

Re: [tips] For Your Next Lab Class: How To Build Your Own Cyborg Cockroach

2013-06-13 Thread Mike Palij
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:46:50 -0700, Carol DeVolder wrote: OK, although this looks really interesting, I have one question: Don't most people think cockroaches are super icky? Perhaps. But that's why you have to emphasize the CYBORG part! Remind folks that they'll be getting a shiny cyborg