Boiling Frog

I can't believe that page doesn't feature my favourite bad film dialogue quote, from the volcano disaster movie Dante's Peak:<p><i>Harry Dalton: My 9th grade science teacher always said that if you put a frog in boiling hot water, it would jump out, but put it in cold water, and heat it up gradually, it would slowly boil to death.<p>Nancy: Your recipe for frog soup?<p>Harry Dalton: No. It's my recipe for a disaster</i>

"In 1869, while doing experiments searching for the location of the soul, German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but his intact frogs attempted to escape the water"<p>I tried to do this with an human. Once I removed his brain he stop perceiving danger... it must be a coincidence.<p>Lesson learned: don't let them remove your brain

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this was posted due to the discussion here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1174036" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1174036</a> about whether the boiling frog story is true or not.<p>tl;dr - it is.

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If you don't mind a good amount of screaming in your music (or if you're particularly worked up and need some screaming), there's a song called "Boiled Frogs" by Alexisonfire that is about this topic. Very very good.<p>In other news, this exact topic is my biggest fear in the world. I hope I never wake up 20 years later and realize I've been doing the exact same thing the whole time.