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Daniel Engber

Science Health

A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering

James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.

Daniel Engber The Atlantic Oct 2021 Permalink

Crime Sports

"You Guys Are Scaring Me"

A woman told police she was raped by three New York Mets. They were never charged.

Daniel Engber Slate Jan 2020 35min Permalink

Science

The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain

Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process, he almost lost his mind.

Daniel Engber Wired Jan 2016 20min Permalink

Science

The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield

She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate with the outside world. Then she said they were in love.

Daniel Engber New York Times Magazine Oct 2015 20min Permalink

Science

The Plastinarium of Dr. von Hagens

The man behind the Body Worlds exhibit faces his own death.

Daniel Engber Wired Feb 2013 20min Permalink

Science

The Mouse Trap

How the medical research industry came to almost exclusively use rodents for testing—and the danger that reliance now poses to human health.

  1. Part I: The Dangers of Using One Animal to Study Every Disease

  2. Part II: A Tiny Alcoholic Takes Over the Lab

  3. Part III: Could a Hairless African Rodent Be Our Secret weapon in the War on Cancer?

Daniel Engber Slate Nov 2011 1h30min Permalink