Brain on a Stick and Other Experiments

Other experiments were seen within the School on various occasions when the Flock visited.

The Angel Experiment

The Flock and the Erasers were the School's most significant subjects.

Angel encountered two children younger than her, also held in cages, whose thoughts were "scrambled" and "incoherent." They seemed fearful.

A boy with patches of rough, scaly skin like a fish's.
A boy with extra fingers and toes, hardly any neck, bulging eyes, and not much hair.

Ari shows Max around as a guided tour while she is being held captive there. She observes numerous experiments.

A human baby, not old enough to walk, who is solving complex mathematical equations on a whiteboard. The whitecoats compare her intelligence to that of the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman. The child seems well-treated, playing with a toy frog and being given a cookie when she completes an equation.
A human child, about two years old, with bulked-up, developed muscles. This child was bench-pressing more than 200 pounds.
Flyboys: the Erasers' robotic replacements. They were rechargeable robots covered in hairy Eraser skin. At the School, Max observed them hung in rows on metal hooks, with wires plugged into their legs.
Brain on a Stick: Brain-like tissue, contained in Plexiglas boxes and floating in differently colored liquids. Wires connected the boxes to computers, and a whitecoat typed commands into it; the brain would then carry them out. Max saw another of these experiments carried on a metallic spinal cord with two metal legs capable of smooth walking. Max believed it was talking to itself.
- This experiment, according to Ari, is possibly to see "if people [will] still need bodies or something.
- Later, at Itex's English branch, Angel senses "minds without bodies" and Max guesses they are connected.
- The Uber-Director is a similar being seen later in the series.