Man's brain turned to glass by Vesuvius volcano ash cloud
with only a single hemisphere, his left one—the right half of his brain was almost fully removed at the age of three!
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
What we do know is that the brain is emerging, in study after study, as one of climate change’s most vulnerable landscapes.
Clayton Page Aldern • How a warming Earth is changing our brains, bodies and minds | Aeon Essays
One man a hole as large as a billiard ball through his forehead, a perfect giant in death.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
This was such a vast conflagration that the mixture of molten metal it produced was supposed to be the origin of a prized, and extremely expensive, material known as Corinthian bronze.
Mary Beard • SPQR
The brain is fed nutrients, energy, and oxygen by a power grid of an estimated four hundred miles of microvasculature. Any outage along this network (leading to reduced blood flow to the brain)