EditorialA carving of a potato in jar of formaldehyde, created by Mary Cannon for the Baseball Reliquary to honor AA baseball catcher Dave Bresnahan?s fake pickoff prank in 1987 that involved throwing a potato into left field, at the Institute for Baseball Studies, in Whittier, Calif., July 11, 2022. (Morgan Lieberman/The New York Times)
EditorialA hemisphere of a brain, fixed in formaldehyde, is weighed in the lab of the brain bank before samples are cut for tissue slides, at the University of Antioquia n Medellín, Colombia, Dec. 4, 2020. (Federico Rios Escobar/The New York Times)