Look! There's a hole in your head!

The history of trepanation. An utterly amazing post!

And, Bioephemera posted an appropriate illustration to go with it....

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Still OT: Wow, he died! I thought about him last week, when people were covering the paper folding myth. He did an episode on that - I'm sad to say that he bought into the myth though. I actually thought he was already dead. :-(

No He is NOT dead. He will live forever in our hearts!