Phineas Gage and the Art of Starting Over | Ep. 1
Most people know the famous story of Phineas Gage—the railroad foreman who survived an iron tamping rod blasting through his skull and forever changed the way we understand the human brain.
What most people don't know is that it happened in Cavendish, Vermont, where freight trains still roll past the site of one of history's most extraordinary accidents.
But this isn't just the story of the day Gage almost died.
It's the story of how he lived afterward.
In the premiere episode of Notes From the Dead, host Rebecca Donohue travels back to the place where neuroscience changed forever and asks…
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