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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
~ Sam Kean
Away
Biological
Brain
Forefront
Important
Injuries
Injury
Iron
Kind
Long
Necessarily
Often
Part
Personality
Pretty
Rod
Self
Severe
Straight
Suffer
Through
Unusual
Very
Vital
Walk
You
Your
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
~ Sam Kean
About
After
Atoms
Create
Elements
Generally
Had
Instead
Looking
Nature
Scientists
Smaller
Smashing
Stopped
Them
Together
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
~ Sam Kean
Beings
Born
Copies
Could
Dozens
Every
Fact
Few
Gene
Human
Human Beings
In Fact
Lethal
Mutations
Other
Parents
Pick
Slack
Those
Two
Up
Well
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
~ Sam Kean
Although
Brain
Cannot
Every
Feel
Hub
Itself
Lacks
Nerve
Nervous
Nervous System
Pain
System
Therefore
Ultimate
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Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
~ Sam Kean
Abundant
Almost
Been
Class
Collectively
Common
Crust
Earth
Greek
Has-Been
Iron
Least
Metal
Minerals
Most
Roman
Since
Times
Twice
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America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
~ Sam Kean
After
America
Certainly
Chaos
End
Equal
Europe
Scientifically
War
World
World War
World War I
World War II
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Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.
~ Sam Kean
About
Among
Close
Cold
Fusion
Nuclear
Par
Physicists
Reputation
Room
Temperature
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
~ Sam Kean
Animal
Biased
Human
Including
Movement
Objects
See
Stationary
Technically
Toward
Vision
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As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
~ Sam Kean
1980s
Anyway
Around
Away
Balloons
Child
Dentist
Early
Else
Fly
Food
Mouth
No-One
Talk
Things
Tubes
Whatever
Would
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Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.
~ Sam Kean
Around
Atoms
Big
Bigger
Close
Closest
Consist
Electron
Feel
Flying
Get
Light
Negative
Outside
Positive
Really
Speed
Speeds
Strong
Tug
Whip
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Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
~ Sam Kean
Atoms
Creating
Electron
Element
Ending
Fill
Gas
Gases
Natural
Next
Noble
Outer
Pointing
Points
Row
Shell
Special
Table
Turning
Turning Points
Type
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
~ Sam Kean
Around
Assumed
Based
Before
Behaviors
Brains
Complex
Estimates
Genes
Genome
High
Human
Humans
Most
Must
Our
Project
Scientists
Some
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Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
~ Sam Kean
Bonds
Carbon
Diamond
Electron
Fewer
Form
Four
Impression
Matrix
Means
Neighbor
Perfect
Periodic
Quite
Same
Table
Way
Which
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Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.
~ Sam Kean
Above
Active
Brain
Brain Surgery
Different
Guide
Happen
Here
Important
Important Part
Makes
Most
Own
Part
Patient
Perhaps
Surgery
Surgical
Team
The Most Important
Voice
Without
Work
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
~ Sam Kean
Brains
Faces
Lot
Much
Person
See
Vary
You
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Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
~ Sam Kean
Body
Cancer
Cells
Certain
Control
Couple
Disease
DNA
Expense
Fail
Genes
Good
Growing
Our
Out
Pretty
Pretty Good
Prevent
Really
Robust
Start
Starts
System
Then
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
~ Sam Kean
Carbon
Champagne
Diamonds
Dresses
Eastern
Known
Neighbor
Oranges
Table
Tint
Up
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Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.
~ Sam Kean
Colorful
Despite
Element
Every
Found
History
Linguistics
Madness
Money
Much
Obscurity
Periodic
Poison
Pretty
Runs
Sex
Table
Theme
Through
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
~ Sam Kean
Among
Company
Despite
Doctors
Element
Fact
Gentleman
Harmless
In Fact
Keeps
Like
Most
Overall
Periodic
Prescribe
Seems
Soothe
Table
Ulcer
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Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
~ Sam Kean
Body
Breathing
Button
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Care
Cares
Despite
Enough
Gas
Guess
Might
Monitoring
Off
Only
Oxygen
Panic
Sets
Suffocating
Whether
You
Your
Your Body
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