Episode #737

Item #1 Science
Jose Delgado, a Yale physiologist, invented the stimoceiver – a radio controlled implant he placed in the brains of animals and ultimately people, to remotely control their emotions and physical movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Delgado
Item #2 Fiction
Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanov successfully created a human-chimp hybrid, although the infant only lived for three weeks. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ilya-Ivanovich-Ivanov
Item #3 Science
Russian physician Sergei Brukhonenko kept a decapitated dog’s head alive and awake with extracorporeal blood perfusion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2BxGOdYm8U

“Dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.” – Perry DeAngelis (August 22, 1963 – August 19, 2007)