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laphamsquarterly: 2012: 54 brains being stored at a Harvard-affiliated research laboratory rendered useless after their storage freezer malfunctions. 1907: Phrenology aficionado Walt Whitman’s brain the subject of dispute and intrigue—was it stolen? Was it studied? Was it, as conventional science of the time believed it should be, larger than the brains of less accomplished men? This is my favorite Deja Vu so far.

laphamsquarterly:

2012: 54 brains being stored at a Harvard-affiliated research laboratory rendered useless after their storage freezer malfunctions.

1907: Phrenology aficionado Walt Whitman’s brain the subject of dispute and intrigue—was it stolen? Was it studied? Was it, as conventional science of the time believed it should be, larger than the brains of less accomplished men?

This is my favorite Deja Vu so far.

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    My friend Kate Daloz and I once did a short radio story about the loss of Whitman’s brain for Third Coast’s Radio...
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    This is my favorite Deja Vu so far.
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