Look inside.
This isn’t a discovery so much as a great resource (and wonderful source of visuals), but you should really look inside The Cell Image Library… and look inside your cells.
Really.… Read the rest “Look inside.”
anatomy
Running barefoot.
ScienceDaily keeps up with the latest research into the health benefits of running without shoes:
… Read the rest “Running barefoot.”[S]ays Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University
Da Vinci Studies of Fetuses, photo by Luc Viatour.
These are notes and pen-over-chalk sketches of a 4-month-old fetus (and the structure of the placenta) as seen by Leonardo da Vinci. The first idea of the fetal position… Read the rest “Da Vinci Studies of Fetuses, photo by Luc Viatour.”
Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.
William Miller was an engraver and illustrator in the 1800s, known familiarly as “the Scotch Quaker.” He created wonderfully detailed plates of, well, nearly anything that… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.”
SONG: Dear Winter.
SONG: “Dear Winter” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Humans Have Hidden Sensory System”, LiveScience… Read the rest “SONG: Dear Winter.”
Skin sense
Yeah, so did you know your skin can hear? And that, LiveScience says, isn’t all. There’s also some kind of subtle sense that operates through our sweat glands:
… Read the rest “Skin sense”“Curiously,
Science Art: Baender der Hand, Meyers Blitz-Lexikon, 1932
These are the volumes of the hand, Babelfish tells me… although “baender” also means “bands” (like the FM radio band), or ligaments.
Image found in Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science Art: Baender der Hand, Meyers Blitz-Lexikon, 1932”
Science Art: “Three Kinds of Ears” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Tom Giesler: My Anatomy
Tom Giesler does anatomical charts of emotional states.
You should see them. For a visceral thrill, you understand.
SONG: We Climb.
SONG: “We Climb.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Fossil fills out water-land leap”, BBC News, 25… Read the rest “SONG: We Climb.”