What Can You Do Without a Brain?

Vsauce3: http://bit.ly/UE3Q0R

BACKYARD BRAIN CHANNEL:
Electrical impulses from di-embodied limbs: http://bit.ly/TVtE39

BackyardBrains INSANE squid axon reactions to music: http://bit.ly/WJLyw3

Frog legs move when salted VIDEO: http://bit.ly/VFGHg6

Music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow

Mike the headless chicken:

http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

Cockroach’s can live without heads for a while: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-cockroach-can-live-without-head

Speed of a sneeze: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/db/human-body/sneeze-travel-100-mph.html

Reflexes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/reflexes/reflexes.shtml

“Why can’t I consciously make my heart stop beating?” http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-64317.html

More on the frogs and electricity and muscles in general:

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/12/21/how-twitching-frog-legs-work-a-little-gross-yes-but-fascinating/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrophysiology

Skin cells after death: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/dying4.htm