If you believe certain musical groups, everybody wants to live forever (while ruling the world?). Our fascination with immortality is such that it’s a hallmark of mythology. In our daily lives, we obsess over staying young and healthy (or at least many advertisers and marketeers think we do, or at least that we obsess over how to appear young and healthy). And as a species we’ve funnel... »
For a person on the fence about a scientific issue, especially a personal one like GMOs, fluoridated drinking water, or vaccines, a seed of doubt is often all it takes to push them over the fence on the side opposite the scientific consensus. That’s why internet memes touting the dangers of these issues can be so effective — those against them only have to make you wonder “what i... »
I recently stumbled over this new Kris Moyes-directed Grizzly Bear video, which is pretty visually interesting and basically like a series of animated gifs. Some of the gifs from the video are even downloadable, in case you want to embed the one of the guy’s melting iris as he puts in a contact into your new message board signature. I couldn’t help but notice that it was littered with ... »
Last week the California Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with Gladstone Institutes, hosted a “five-day biosciences festival” called Brilliant!Science. CalAcademy is terrific at outreach and education, and Gladstone is home to a lot of cutting-edge research, so of course our ears were perked. Friday evening featured an event called “Body Art: An Evening Science Mingle,” ... »
We did some weird projects in grad school, and the bulk of them were in Ray’s class. Ray is a really cool guy, and even has an IMDB page. He taught intro techniques for anaplastology, or facial prosthetics (post on this subject coming next month). We cast our own ears in dental stone and then had to sculpt their mirror images in clay. This is something you’d have to do to make a prosth... »
Back by request (and, let’s be honest, because I like blog posts that are mostly pictures), here are some more drawings from my human anatomy sketchbook. Some language in this post is NSFW. This spread has the cavernous sinuses on the left (the reason why picking an infected pimple on your face can kill you if you’re unlucky), and it has then some stuff about the inguinal canal and spi... »
When my fellow Labbers Anne and Katy posted about sketchnoting, it jogged something loose in my memory. That is generally how I always take notes, and it was very helpful when I had to take human anatomy in grad school. In other words, it’s part of a never-ending cycle of drawing anatomy to learn anatomy so that I can more authoritatively draw anatomy later, which will enable others to learn... »
I saw this animated music video and got kind of excited since a) it is stop motion and cutout animation, which is like catnip to me, b) it uses medical imagery, and c) the little girl reminded me of Henry Darger’s paintings and Alice in Wonderland. The song is In the Morning by Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores and is off their 7th album, Sister Death, released yesterday on Cuneiform Records... »
