{"id":1098,"date":"2013-10-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1098"},"modified":"2014-02-11T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T21:28:08","slug":"vampire-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1098","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"QuestionImage\"<\/a>  I’m looking for a hobby, and I was wondering… How do your raise book worms?<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

———- from Gordon Nagay ofBerkeley, CA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"  Where have you been? Print is dead. So are the book worms. Now we’re left with video vermin, creeping internet insects that feed off what’s left of our collective unconscious. When that’s all gone, I suppose they’ll be replaced with a new kind of parasite that lives inside your head and eats IQ. Remember that Edgar Allen Poe story about the guy who was eaten by a vampire chicken?**Excuse me, Dr. Science, this is Rodney. I don’t believe I have. What’s the matter, Rodney, didn’t you take high school English? **To the best of my knowledge I did, but I don’t remember that Poe story. Did you read the Red Badge of Courage? **Yes, I remember that one. And the O’Henry one, the Gift of the Magi. Well, then you must have read the one about the vampire chicken. Did I answer this guy’s question yet? <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"QuestionImage\"<\/a>I’m looking for a hobby, and I was wondering… How do your raise book worms?

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