Cover Story

The 19th-century French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne applying electricity to stimulate a young girl’s individual facial muscles. From Duchenne’s 1862 book The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression.

Eight-year-old Samuel Kastner’s drawing of this issue’s cover.

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