It’s been a dream of scientists, interrogators and law enforcement professionals for years: Strap a terrorist suspect to a couple of electrodes, start asking him questions, and watch his brainwaves rat him out.

In a recent paper, a Northwestern University professor uses

1941: Stephen Jay Gould, who will become a famous evolutionary theorist and popular science writer, is born in New York City.

As a 5-year-old, Gould became