Playbill

June, 2012

When Steven Kotler sat down with Hugh Herr, a professor of bio-mechatronics at MIT who years before had Lost both Legs in a cLimbing acci­dent, he found him to be "one of the most impressive human beings I've ever met." That's quite a compLiment coming from a science writer who has interviewed hun­dreds of deep thinkers. And then, KotLer teLLs us, he had the same reaction when he met David RozeLLe, who Lost a Leg in Iraq and, equipped with a prosthetic designed by Herr, returned to the...