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Brandy L Schillace

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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

Brandy L Schillace

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?

5 min readOct 1, 2023

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Once Bitten: the Silent epidemic of Long Lyme Disease

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Autism Out Loud

A coming out story about disability

6 min readOct 1, 2023

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Autism Out Loud

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Archive

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

9 min readSep 19, 2023

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Archive

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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.

14 min readSep 15, 2023

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The God of Mathematics

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Unremembered Girls

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

11 min readSep 8, 2023

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Unremembered Girls

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The Future of Clones

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

11 min readAug 21, 2023

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The Future of Clones

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Chasing Eve:

Is Cloning the Future?

11 min readAug 11, 2023

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Chasing Eve:

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Closing the Loop

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

8 min readAug 9, 2023

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Closing the Loop

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Pig Brains and Butterfly Goo

The strange science of life, death, and consciousness

6 min readAug 9, 2023

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Pig Brains and Butterfly Goo

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Conservatives weaponize autism in their fight against transgender

What is happening and what can be done. A conversation between Brandy Schillace and Eric Garcia

19 min readApr 7, 2023

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alphabet blocks of many colors spelling the word transgender

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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

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