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Until recently, it was popularly believed that science was done by heads, or more specifically, brains. After all, aren't scientists cleverer than everyone else? Einstein's brain in particular, as Roland Barthes pointed out, epitomizes this hyper-decontextualized folk philosophy of science. Yet even