Remember Blue Velvet? Well, Bill Miston doesn’t draw any parallels between the film and Jimmy Senda’s curious find just the other day. But finding an apparent human brain along a beach is newsworthy, which is why Ashley Cowie goes behind the headlines with Sherlock Holmes and the Foil-Covered Brain of Lake Michigan with expert fortean analysis of the aluminum foil, the Chinese coins, and flowers accompanying the curious organ. Unfortunately, anomalists and authorities probably won’t draw any conclusions from it to answer the question, “Has The Stress of COVID Affected Our Brains?” A new preprint recently hit the anonymous Neuroskeptic’s desk concerning the mental impact of the ongoing pandemic upon healthy people, and it may fuel the conspiratorial fires of fevered brains trying to make sense of the insensible. (CS)

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