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  • How The Wealthy Skirt The Organ Waitlist

    You start feeling severe abdominal pain and swelling. Soon you experience fatigue, nausea, and disorientation. You go to the doctor to ask if anything is wrong. The doctor runs tests and gives you a harrowing diagnosis: your liver is failing and you need a new one as soon as possible. Unfortunately, she tells you that…

  • Holding His Narrative Hostage

    His name was mentioned in over 12,000 journal articles. Early descriptions of his brain were the first attempts at memory research. After his autopsy, his brain was sliced into 2,401 70-slices and uploaded to create a three-dimensional model of his brain while 400,000 viewers watched on a livestream. After his brain was sliced up, there…