links for 2009-10-30

I love these sorts of stories. [via @jasonhoyt]

Hm. Triggers lots of thoughts….

"THE daguerreotype on the right is believed to be the only known image of railroad worker Phineas Gage, who was enshrined in the history of neuroscience one day in September, 1848, when a large iron rod he was using to tamp gunpowder into a hole in a rock caused an explosion and was propelled through his brain." [via @mocost]