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Tim Requarth

science writer & educator

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The Final Five Percent (Longreads)

If traumatic brain injuries can impact the parts of the brain responsible for personality, judgment, and impulse control, maybe injury should be a mitigating factor in criminal trials — but maybe not. This is the story of my brother’s motorcycle accident, personality change, and crime, during which I discover that assigning crime a biological basis creates more issues than it solves. Read more…

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