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January 28, 2011

The Tell-Tale Brain

Utilizing case studies of the most extreme types of neuro-disasters to illustrate the evloution, construction, and functioning of the average human brain, V. S. Ramachandran, dubbed the "Marco Polo of neuroscience," explores how this miraculous organ makes us human.

Daybook

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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