WHERE WILL THIS HEAD: To fill my weekly weirdness requirement, I turn my head – cautiously holding onto it – toward Italy and a highly respected neuroscientist, Dr. Sergio Canavero. This week, the good nerve-ending doctor has turned more than few heads with his revelation that the realm of neurosurgery is now fully capable of human head transplants.

If you’re a frequenter of this column, you know I never jest about head transplants. Neither does Canavero.

“The greatest technical hurdle to such an endeavor is of course the reconnection of the donor’s and recipient’s spinal cords,” he wrote in a technical paper. “It is my contention that the technology only now exists for such linkage. This paper sketches out a possible human scenario and outlines the technology to reconnect the severed cord.”

Somewhat forebodingly, there is already a code name given to any effort to transplant a head. It is preordinately dubbed The Gemini Project.

The brain within my suddenly interchangeable head has truly been boggled by this breakthroughish news. It is boggled over the possibility that I can have my head/brain surgically attached to the body of, say, a world-class athlete.