This Is Gruesome, but....

By James Fallows
If you're looking for more evidence that simply plunging a living being, frog or human, into an already-boiling cauldron will stimulate that creature to bounce out self-protectively, unharmed, consider this recent sad news from Russia:
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I will now give this theme a rest again for a while. Really it's my common sense that is offended here, as even trained scientists keep using a boiled-frog metaphor they would realize couldn't possibly be true if they thought about it for one minute. Oh well. On the other hand, I personally believe the moon is made of green cheese. 

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/03/this-is-gruesome-but/36968/