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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
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Subject: Re: Forgotten Entities: Do You Remember Any?
Summary: Better than "protoplasm"...
Keywords: protoplasm
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Date: 30 Oct 90 21:01:17 GMT
References: <1990Oct25.232546.12357@portia.Stanford.EDU> <3870@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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In article <3870@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky) writes:
> Protoplasm.  The stuff inside cells.  It was a big thing when I went
> to grade school.  Do they still talk about it?

	I've got one better: ectoplasm (the "spiritual" variety, that is).

	While I cannot recall the specific sources, I have seen photographs
of alleged ectoplasm in books, replete with a chemical analysis which
puported to show epithelial cells.

	Epithelial cells, my nose! :-)

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