Helen Thomson closes Unthinkable by describing it as "romantic science," an approach that emphasizes human connection alongside data and clinical reports. The humans in question are not the practitioners of science but the subjects of its investigations. Thomson profiles nine people from all over the world whose subjective experiences of that world push the limits of our ability to communicate about them. She feels compelled to employ rich, high bandwidth personal accounts because an abstraction like "lycanthropy" needs … [Read more...] about Science Book Review: Unthinkable – An Extraordinary Journey through the World’s Strangest Brains