This hour, we’ll explore how neurosurgeons had to experiment with different procedures to get to where we are with modern neuroscience with author Sam Kean.
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Tales of Love, War, Genius, and DNA
How many great and forgotten stories are hidden inside a strand of human DNA?
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Tales of Madness from the Periodic Table of the Elements
What roles have carbon, silicon, neon, gold and other elements played in human history? We’ll explore these and other tales this hour with science writer Sam Kean, whose new book is “The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements” (Little, Brown and Company, 2010).
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