Ron gets a brainy no-prize for bringing us this Discovery Channel article about an innovative new brain research project that allows a custom-grown matrix of rat brain cells to control an airplane simulator. It sounds like they've managed to get it to act as an autopilot, which is pretty good considering the control wires run into a petri dish.

Having robots with actual living brains is kinda creepy. Then again, having a robot go fetch me a beer is kinda cool. Which do you think is gonna win out?