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I Got to Experience Every Medievalist’s Dream. It Was Greater Than I Ever Imagined.
Sam Kean
July 07, 2025
5:45 AM
How Will Language Change if Humans Travel the Stars?
Sam Kean
Aug 31, 2020
9:00 AM
A Bizarre 1970 Arctic Killing Offers a Road Map for How Not to Deal With Murder in Space
Sam Kean
July 15, 2020
5:45 AM
What Can We Learn About Farting From the World’s Most Famous Flatulence Artist?
Sam Kean
July 24, 2017
9:30 AM
Why Would I Write About Phineas Gage? A Slate Writer Explains the Story Behind His Story.
Jeff Friedrich and Sam Kean
May 08, 2014
3:09 PM
The True Story of Phineas Gage Is Much More Fascinating Than the Mythical Textbook Accounts
Sam Kean
May 06, 2014
11:32 PM
Farewell to One of the Most Important Amnesia Patients in the History of Memory Research
Sam Kean
April 06, 2014
11:47 PM
Is Junk DNA Really Junky? A Fish-Eating Plant Weighs In.
Sam Kean
Oct 03, 2013
8:31 AM
According to His DNA Sequence, James Watson Should Be Blind, Deaf, and Have a Tiny Head. Why Doesn’t He?
Sam Kean
July 27, 2012
8:30 AM
Did Lincoln Have Marfan Syndrome? Did Darwin Have Smoldering Hepatitis?
Sam Kean
July 26, 2012
6:01 AM
How Yam Farming Contributed to the Rise of Sickle-Cell Anemia
Sam Kean
July 25, 2012
6:00 AM
How a Daughter Inherited Her Mother’s Cancer
Sam Kean
July 24, 2012
6:00 AM
Why a Mother Can’t Give Cancer to Her Fetus—Usually
Sam Kean
July 23, 2012
6:00 AM
Chim-chim-cheroo: Why So Many London Chimney Sweeps Suffered Scrotal Cancer
Sam Kean
July 20, 2012
6:00 AM
The Chromosomal Evidence That Mankind Nearly Went Extinct
Sam Kean
July 19, 2012
6:00 AM
Humans Have Long Enjoyed Nonhuman Lovers—the Proof is in Our DNA
Sam Kean
July 18, 2012
6:00 AM
Did STDs Help Human Beings Evolve?
Sam Kean
July 17, 2012
6:00 AM
Possible Genetic Proof That Cannibalism Was Disturbingly Common in Our Past
Sam Kean
July 16, 2012
6:00 AM
How a Mutation on Chromosome 16 Gave Elizabeth Taylor Her Amazing Double Eyelashes
Sam Kean
July 13, 2012
6:00 AM
Muscular Dystrophy, Cri du Chat, “Immigration Delay Disease”: When DNA Fails.
Sam Kean
July 12, 2012
6:00 AM
