Disturbing...

A friend at work told me to go to youtube.com, and type "Russian dog video" into its search engine (parental guidance suggested, kids; Kate - don't look). What you find is research footage (Russian, apparently, though the narration is in English), where they have decapitated a dog and hooked up the head to some primitive blood bypass machine. The head is therefore still alive, responding to smells and touch and so forth. The whole thing is set to a tinny, crackly orchestral soundtrack that makes the whole thing seem a lost video from the Dharma Initiative. It could be a hoax, or it could be real. Either way, it is one of the more disturbing (and sad) things that I have ever seen. And since I couldn't think of anything else to post, I share that disturbance with you.