Maybe we should use more actual human language to talk instead of sniffing an armpit and doing things like that.” So you and your partner may be close, but are you so close that your cells communicate and reproduce independently, making you functionally immortal? Yeah, didn’t think so.

“That’s how Jessica and I kind of talk to each other. It’s just at the cellular level,” Isaac said. There are many species of marine flatworms and according to Lamb and Hanby (2005) they can be extremely difficult to identify.

“And if you interfere with these, you can make them grow two heads and they’ll continue to do that. “You can cut them into like 100 pieces and they will grow a whole new worm out of the little piece.” Trust that this gets sweet soon, shortly after the worm-dissection talk.Īccording to Professor Moon Knight, flatworms are basically immortal because their cells can communicate on some electrochemical/ electromagnetic level. “I was just watching this video of this guy, it’s like a TED Talk, talking about these little … flatworms,” Isaac said on The Jess Cagle Podcast. While trying to explain his armpit-sniffing moment with Jessica Chastain on the Venice International Film Festival red carpet, Isaac couldn’t help but bring up flatworms.

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