A Google Doodle we didn’t get here: the 127th birthday of Wilder Penfield, Canadian immigrant neurosurgeon, famous for this work on mapping the brain and its sensory functions.
His method for treating epileptic seizure was made into a short film that kicked off “I smell burnt toast!” as shorthand for oncoming brain trauma and a fairly standard joke about the subject - I used it myself a couple weeks ago, because I did actually smell burning.
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