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Vital Electricity

You're Dead to Me

CHAPTER

The Leiden Jar

Olga: This is all just sort of experiment for the sake of the thrill of it and the wonder of it. Peter von Mushtenberg, who is a professor at Leiden University, gets its name. Benjamin Franklin shows that you can cook your Thanksgiving turkey using electricity. Vomit, he says, is unusually tender when it's cooked by electricity. And we have philosophers zapping each other to see what it does to humans.

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