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3 Problem-Solving Reads For The Scientific Sleuth

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January 19, 2012 Science has a way of getting inside our heads — especially when it comes to the powers of the mind. Author and neurologist Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa recommends three brilliant brain-teasing books.

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Re-Examining The Father Of Modern Surgery

Dr. William Stewart Halsted performing a surgery in 1904

February 22, 2010 William Halsted is credited with creating the United States' first surgical residency program and transforming the way operating rooms are sterilized. He was also a morphine addict. Plastic surgeon Gerald Imber details Halsted's dual lives in the new biography Genius on the Edge.

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