Brandy L Schillace – Medium

Brandy L Schillace

Featured Book

Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

The true story of how a Cold War contest to be first in organ transplant leads to a scientist's quest for head transplantation.

2021

Brandy Schillace

Brandy Schillace

Stories

That Time I Made JD Vance Sad

As we head into the final days for election 2024, I would like to share an embarrassing moment for the ‘creepy’ candidate

Oct 23

That Time I Made JD Vance Sad

Oct 23

Once Bitten: the Silent epidemic of Long Lyme Disease

What if one of the worst epidemics of chronic illness was also it’s most ignored? What if that wasn’t entirely an accident?

Oct 1, 2023

Once Bitten: the Silent epidemic of Long Lyme Disease

Oct 1, 2023

Autism Out Loud

A coming out story about disability

Oct 1, 2023

Autism Out Loud

Oct 1, 2023

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Archive

Mystery instructions, disappearing SD cards, and hidden elevators make my job feel like espionage

Sep 19, 2023

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Archive

Sep 19, 2023

The God of Mathematics

If you looked carefully at the night sky, and you did so every night for a year, you would notice something unusual.

Sep 15, 2023

The God of Mathematics

Sep 15, 2023

Unremembered Girls

How the Victorian War on Women led to London’s First Serial Killer

Sep 8, 2023

Unremembered Girls

Sep 8, 2023

The Future of Clones

Part two of Chasing Eve — have we really cloned a human?

Aug 21, 2023

The Future of Clones

Aug 21, 2023

Chasing Eve:

Is Cloning the Future?

Aug 11, 2023

Chasing Eve:

Aug 11, 2023

Closing the Loop

The Human-Machine Interface and the Race to Turn Thought into Motion

Aug 9, 2023

Closing the Loop

Aug 9, 2023

Pig Brains and Butterfly Goo

The strange science of life, death, and consciousness

Aug 9, 2023

Pig Brains and Butterfly Goo

Aug 9, 2023

Brandy L Schillace

Brandy L Schillace

Book Author

(skil-AH-chay) Author in #history, #science, & #medicine. Bylines: SciAm, Globe&Mail, WIRED, WSJ. EIC Medical Humanities. Host of Peculiar Book Club. she/her

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams