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The Science Fiction Effect

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

February 9, 2012

It's alive! Neurophysiology. Huddled around a warm fireplace one cold summer's night in 1816, a small group of friends decided to hold a competition to see who could write the scariest horror story.

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