Discuss “How Things Work: Phrenology”

Don?t you wish you had lived in the 19th century? So many great things were happening: The postage stamp was invented, Emily Dickinson was sitting in her house for most of the century, and millions of heads were analyzed by practicing phrenologists. Thomas Edison, one of the great inventors of our time, said, ?I never knew I had an inventive talent until phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!?

What the heck is phrenology, anyway? I?ll give you a hint: there hasn?t been much headway in the field since 1850. Okay, I?ll stop playing head games with you. Indeed, after you read this article, you?ll know so much about phrenology that you?ll have a head start on your peers when phrenology comes back into fashion.

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