One of the most prominent yet perplexing studies was published in 1965 in the top-tier journal Science by Thomas D. Duane and Thomas Behrendt of the department of ophthalmology at Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia. (I don't know if one's first name had to be Thomas at Thomas Jefferson University, or if it was just assigned to you when you joined the faculty, but it might be worth looking into.)
Though he points out the repetition of the name Thomas, Radin doesn't mention what the name means: "twin." What was the subject of this study by Thomas and Thomas of Thomas Jefferson University?
When you look up this study on PubMed, the National Library of Science website, you'll find a one-line abstract: "Alpha rhythms have been elicited in one of a pair of identical twins as a result of evoking these rhythms in a conventional manner solely in the other."
So Thomas and Thomas -- Twin and Twin -- published a study about subconscious telepathic rapport between identical twins, and they conducted the study at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia -- a city with a name that refers to the bond between siblings. It derives from a Greek word literally meaning "the same womb." The definition of twin is "either of two people who shared the same uterus at the same time."
For one more twin angle, Radin later discovers the existence of -- italics his -- "a second report by Duane and Behrendt" on the same subject, which had never been published. So the twin study published by Twin and Twin of Twin University in the City of Love Between Womb-Sharers was itself one of a pair of "twin" studies.
And I see that it's past midnight, so I'm publishing this post on 2/2.
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