In Rhythm

I’m reading the book, The Imagineering Way: Ideas to Ignite Your Creativity, and came upon this wonderful bit:

Dr. Ross Edy, a well-known international neuroscientist and longtime friend of my husband, once told me that if you take two separate live heart cells from two separate mammals and put them pulsing in the same petri dish—left alone—in a short time, they will find each other’s rhythm and start to beat in time with each other.
—Karen Connolly Armitage
Senior Concept Designer
Creative Development
Walt Disney Company

Something to think about, eh?

Comments

Anonymous said…
I knew it! I just knew it! Johnny Depp's heart would beat in tune with mine if I could just get near him! LOL!
April 29, 2008
P.L. Frederick said…
Maybe it already is, Jenny. Maybe it already is...

Hee hee! Actually, now that I think about it, maybe lots of our hearts are beating in time to one another. You never know.
April 29, 2008
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