Uploaded June 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Humans are no strangers to DIY surgery. But a DIY trepanation -- removing a chunk of your own skull!?

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Prepare for a trip down the rabbit hole as Robert Lamb and Julie Douglas lead you on a scientific journey to the very limits of human understanding.

VIDEOS REFERENCED:

A Hole In The Head Do-It-Yourself Trepanation
youtube.com/watch?v=GYOOuaXzxEk

A Hole In The Head - Self Trepanation
youtube.com/watch?v=Yedh582zyT0

Ancient Brain Surgery
youtube.com/watch?v=3xLu2353oJM

Bobby Lund - Trepanation Interview
youtube.com/watch?v=4vsB-oxHMRw

12.1. Fracture of Skull - X-ray Reading - Dr. Vaidya
youtube.com/watch?v=xO5k-NFgUJM

Anatomy of the brain The Cerebrospinal Fluid CSF
youtube.com/watch?v=K9BYEO9725k

Ancient Discoveries Gruesome Medicine │ History Documentary
youtube.com/watch?v=cjARwHQBfao

Aron Ralston describes the amputation
youtube.com/watch?v=B2XLoQ1xYB0

Cerebrospinal Fluid Circulation
youtube.com/watch?v=SDMO4vYkqdg

how its made s5 ep12- hypodermic needles
youtube.com/watch?v=ZjIzHPdE6gY

How Its Made Scalpels
youtube.com/watch?v=V89F7_MLKqM

Improvements in the quantitative assessment of cerebral blood volume and flow
youtube.com/watch?v=blFuAUrOno0

Newborn Examination of the head and neck
youtube.com/watch?v=on9b5VR5wm8

People High On Molly Compilation - Very Funny !!! hell of a drug
youtube.com/watch?v=EbSh5zh59e0

Pi (1212) Movie CLIP - Max Drills His Head (1998) HD
youtube.com/watch?v=XGZ0K5Rpacw

right-parietal-craniotomy
youtube.com/watch?v=d95K3unaNCs

self dentistry
youtube.com/watch?v=umeG9hF3t7o

The Matrix Steak
youtube.com/watch?v=TO-LFVHpA4s

Trippy Animation courtesy of Anthony Francisco Schepperd
youtube.com/watch?v=EJqo90lNYLs

Ancient Rome
youtube.com/watch?v=lij59497MBs

Inventions of the Great Ancient Chinese Empire (1 of 5)
youtube.com/watch?v=lxceQ9-6uHQ

Mesoamerica
youtube.com/watch?v=M1ucs0RisZs

The Ancient Egyptians -- The Search
youtube.com/watch?v=GgZa9xca23s

The history of ancient Greece
youtube.com/watch?v=E-Mgb1mav_U