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I'm a freelance writer and illustrator. Before that I was a contributing editor and illustrator at Seed magazine and a researcher at Wired. I've written about science, history and music for The Atavist, Mother Jones, Seed, Scientific American Mind, The Rumpus and The Morning News. Below is a selection of my recent work. A complete list of my published articles and illustrations can be found here. Follow me on twitter @joekloc.

Fascinated by Fear

April 14 2011

RESEARCHERS GET A RARE GLIMPSE AT LIFE WITHOUT FRIGHT.

One of the few exceptions to the old saying “everybody is afraid of something” is a 44-year-old woman known to psychologists as patient SM. She suffers from a rare case of brain damage to an almond-shaped region of her brain called the amygdala that, according to a paper published online December 16 in Current Biology, makes her incapable of experiencing fear.

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Top image: Illustration of Italo Calvino's "The Distance of the Moon" by Joe Kloc. Bottom image: Illustrations of California's inshore fish by Joe Kloc.