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Signs of Danger: A True Crime Astrology Podcast · Jul 14, 2026 · 39m

There is a brain in a jar at Cornell University. It has been there since 1871. The second largest human brain ever recorded. The man it belonged to was a doctor, a lawyer, a philologist, a photographer, an inventor, and a murderer. He killed his wife with a pestle. He poisoned his infant daughter. He taught himself the science of language from a prison cell and tried to auction his manuscript for five hundred thousand dollars. Mark Twain wrote about him.

Three centuries earlier, another man with an extraordinary mind was killing the people closest to him. He did not use a pestle. He used the…