The Nazi Brain Removal Caper

After the end of World War II, a Nazi leader dies in Allied custody under strange circumstances. An American military psychiatrist longs to prove his pet theory by having the…

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The attack of the leopard frogs

poster or "Invasion of the Leopard Frogs"

My new Discover Magazine article about the massive Oconto frog invasion of 1952 is currently behind a paywall, but here’s a teaser. References (3) References allow you to track sources for this…

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XYY Men

Geneticists have long argued about the effects of having an extra male chromosome, a condition found in 1 of 1,000 men A battered paperback entitled The XYY Man, by Kenneth Royce, leans…

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Hunting for Hermits

A nineteenth-century Szechuan hermit

How do you track down a bunch of hermits to interview? I recently needed an answer to that question when an editor at The Saturday Evening Post asked me to write…

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