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From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the...

A new Hockey podcast focusing on Fantasy hockey. The show will focus on Hockey news, weekly roster pick ups and schedules to help make your team the ultimate league champions. Follow me, your host Nick Nightingale, for my “IcePicks” to help you make informed decisions to take your team to the top of the leaderboards! Make sure to tag along and be on the look out for guests hosts (and occasionally my wife), to bring some insight to how they’ve picked and the decisions they have made this Fantasy season.

In July 1952, Dr. Walter Freeman arrived at the gates of a West Virginia asylum. In his medical bag he carried two metal picks and a surgical hammer. He had invented a “cheap, easy” ten-minute lobotomy. The press described it as a miracle cure, a new frontier in psychosurgery. That summer, in just twelve days, Freeman lobotomized 228 men, women, and children in West Virginia’s public mental hospitals. His blitzkrieg of brain surgery became known as “Operation Ice Pick,” named after the tools he wielded.