Science
Australian DJ and neuroscientist discovers that zebrafish go off to MC Hammer – Happy Mag
Meet the coolest fish in school who are ready to party as soon as MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This starts playing.
Rebecca Poulsen, a.k.a. BeXta, is an Australian DJ studying neuroscience at the University of Queensland’s Brain Institute.
As a part of her sound experiments, Poulsen placed baby zebrafish inside a chamber, played them various noises whilst scanning their brains with a laser, and examined the results through a microscope.
The results have been published in the journal Current Biology and oh boy are they funky. One of the sounds that Poulsen serenaded the fish with was MC Hammer’s 1990 hip-hop track…
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