Pursuits
The Black-Market Value of 100 Brains: Less Than One Good Kidney
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The 100 human brains that went missing in Texas have been found.
After the undeniably intriguing prospect of a massive brain heist lit up the Internet, officials from the University of Texas found their misplaced brains at a facility on the San Antonio campus. “They have the brains,” Timothy Schallert, a neuroscience professor from the Austin campus that couldn’t find the samples, told the Los Angeles Times. “They read a media report of the missing brains and they called to say: ‘We got those brains!’