Planarians / Flatworms in our popular culture

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It is no secret that I love my flatworms.  I am far from being an impartial observer, after all, it is my chosen research subject.  Nonetheless, after I started to work with them purely as a tool, I gained an appreciation of how truly wonderful these critters are.  I am happy to report that I am not the only person who thinks that planarians are cool…
Seriously now, many people find these worms fascinating; planarians have recently appeared in aspects of our popular culture, particularly television shows like The Walking Dead and Cosmos for example.  Also, they have been mentioned in Dr. Who, Fringe, The Big Bang Theory and (ugh!) one of the Twilight movies.  Check this out:  did you know that there was even a Planarian Man comic book? Want to know more about it?  Check out Chapter 8 of:
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(you KNEW this was coming…)
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I am a husband, a father of three, and a baldie, who also happens to be a pretty good (I hope) University Professor and Researcher. My undergraduate degree is in General Science, and my MS is in Biochemistry, both from the University of Puerto Rico. My PhD is in Pharmacology, with an emphasis in Neurobiology, from Cornell University. I love science! (do I really need to say it?) In this blog, I mainly talk about science, especially to non-scientists, but from time to time I explore topics like how is it like to raise a boy with autism, science fiction, education, etc. I am usually able to give these and other topics a scientific twist. I also blog about my favorite (non-human) types of organisms, the flatworms, especially planarians. I use planarians as animal models in pharmacology. If you’d like to see my papers so far, click here. Even though I am well published in scientific journals, I got the popular science writing bug relatively recently. I am a scientist who writes, and I have published three book so far. I hope you enjoy my posts. The opinions expressed in this blog are mine alone. They do not represent the views of my employer, my wife, my children, my parents & siblings, or Chuck Darwin…

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