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Topic: brain injury

Male Pileated Woodpecker (Getty Images/Hamid Ebrahimi)

Woodpeckers peck unprotected: study

Matthew Rozsa
George Visger (Photos courtesy of George Visger)

One NFL player's saga of survival

Irvin Muchnick
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on marijuana (Photo by Lisa Lake/Stringer/Getty Images)

NFL accused of "systematic racism"

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
An unidentified Army defender pulls down Navy quarterback Craig Candeto (11) in the third quarter the 104th Army-Navy football game, Dec. 6, 2003. (AP/Rusty Kennedy)

Diagnosing concussions with blood test

Sarah LaFramboise - Massive Science
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Why football needs better helmets

Christina Marvin - Massive Science
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Concussion research and the patriarchy

Nechama Moring - Undark
(AP Photo/Enric Marti)

The American diplomat mystery

Leigh C. Anderson
Cover detail of "A Surgeon in the Village" (Beacon Press)

Brain surgery with a tree saw

Tony Bartelme
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Cam Newton (AP/Joe Mahoney/Shutterstock/Salon)

Head Games: The $100M PR stunt

Steve Almond
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The NFL doomed itself

Andrew O'Hehir
(AP/Tony Avelar)

Football and right-wing denial

Steve Almond
A photo of the author and her husband

My husband's sex lessons

Sonya Lea
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Ray Rice (AP/Nick Wass)

Football and the culture war

Andrew O'Hehir
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-711187p1.html'>Digital Storm</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Sarah Gray
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