Astoundingly Sympathetic Dead Fish
Craig Bennett and colleagues at UCSB have found something truly extraordinary: a dead fish that can read our minds. Bennett conducted an fMRI on the length of a dead salmon, while showing it pictures of different human emotions. It turns out that there are some very active parts of the dead fish when it sees certain types of emotions. Quite incredible. Here is the poster presenting their work.
(And yes, I know it’s a joke and that they’re trying to show the problem with … ahem … fishing for correlations in a massive amount of data).