May 7, 2012

A typo in The Observer (U.K.) suggested people were receiving insect, rather than ear, implants:

A brief guide to neuroscience (“The brain. . . it makes you think. Doesn’t it?”, Discover, New Review, last week, page 19) referred to “cochineal implants” in a sub-heading. That should, of course, have been cochlear implants.

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