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Sam Kean

Crime History

How Not to Deal With Murder in Space

A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing over a jug of raisin wine shows that we need to think about crime outside our atmosphere now.

Sam Kean Slate Jul 2020 Permalink

Science

The Audacious Plan to Save This Man’s Life by Transplanting His Head

The doctors, patient, and ethics behind the experiment.

Sam Kean The Atlantic Aug 2016 25min Permalink

History Science

Phineas Gage, Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient

The railroad foreman’s brain was pierced by a tamping iron. He lived to tell the tale.

Sam Kean Slate May 2014 25min Permalink