The Pasilalinic-Sympathetic Compass of 1851 tried to prove that snails could telepathically communicate. This test was directed by Jacques Toussaint Benoit, a self proclaimed scientist. Can snails actually communicate this way? Join us to find out during this episode of That Was History.
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http://www.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/2006/11/the_snail_teleg/
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