Every few months, another highly educated academic asks: What if I tried doing debunked 18th-century race science, but with AI? The latest entry into the AI phrenology portfolio comes from a group of ...

Phrenology, the study of the shape of the skull, supposedly could tell the shape of your brain and information about your behavior. The "science" became popular about 1810, years after it was ...

More than a century after their bodies were dismembered and their skulls sent to Germany to aid in racially-biased phrenology research, the remains of 19 African Americans have been returned to New ...

DECATUR – With a deft turn or two of a wooden ruler, Lee Slider, eliminated any excuse the four Miller children might ever come up with for a poor report card. He proclaimed they all had ample amounts ...

Craniometry, the study of skull measurements, was widely taught in medical schools in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A CHILD’S GUIDE TO FREUD by Louise Armstrong. Drawings by Whitney Darrow Jr. 60 pages. Simon & Schuster. $2.95. – Freudian expertise has long since reached down through the cocktail party into the ...