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Gerald Maguire always knew there was something different about his brain. He remembers raising his hand in grade school to answer a question and struggling to say the words in his mind. Somewhere between his brain and his mouth, his words were diverted or damaged. The sounds that made it through were garbled and bracketed by extended bouts of strained silence. (Tamisiea, 10/18)

The disease’s rising incidence among nonsmokers is prompting greater research into its unique characteristics and hopes for more targeted screening and treatment. (Kim, 10/23)

Kelly Pi pulled a container of buffalo brains out of her bag and removed the top to show me the meat, which sat in a pool of red liquid. She pointed to a fragment of black amid the pinks and whites of the tissue: “Look, you can see a little bit of the skull!” The brain slithered as she pulled it from its container and held it up for me to admire. Then, as though it were a juicy apple, she took a bite of the raw meat. “Mmmm,” she said. “This is so good.” (Haigney, 10/21)

New York City has been waging war on rats for ages, and the humans certainly have the technological advantage. The BurrowRx is the latest of an array of methods city officials have tried, from traps to birth control to poison to dry ice to the toxic drowning bucket introduced by Eric Adams when he was the Brooklyn borough president. (Stewart, 10/19)