Ibn Battuta on the preferences of cannibals and other things

Imaginatomy

Great music video for Knife by Grizzly Bear:

The Best Gynecology Movie Ever Made

Really a short film. Though its only competition in this category (that I know of) is Dead Ringers, this is a really great cinematic experience, and wonderful story--originally written by Alison Smith.

See the full movie here!:

You can get better quality if you get Wholphin, issue 1 from wholphindvd.com

Etsy Miniature Zombie Food

THIS IS A RING! TO WEAR! ON YOUR FINGER! How cool is that?

Let this be a prologue to my future Grosser Anatomy recipe postings...

Oh, Spleen!

Here are some Leonard Cohenesque tunes to help study for those beginner anatomy exams (borrowed from Regretsy):

Oh, Spleen

Not the best way to get a letter of recommendation

"The...inscription, which Lando rolled up and placed in Christ's nostril...reads, 'Jesus Christ through your mercy let the soul of Lando di Pietro, who made this crucifix, be recommended.'"

-Pamela Smith's Body of the Artisan, p. 10.

(for more, click on the picture)

Reading Lists

Miscellanea from the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford

Distillery Whatnot

Darwin's Origin of the Species

Einstein's Blackboard

X-Ray Machine someone used to take pictures of their friends for fun

Anatomical Preparations

Prosthetic Hand

Ivory sundials from the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford

These don't come in boxes

In the 16th-century, three men fought over who "discovered" the clitoris. THE clitoris. And one of them was named Columbus. Can't make this stuff up. (If you want more, read Thomas Lacquer's Making Sex). Turns out, they, like generations and generations of men and medical 'experts' didn't quite get around to, you know, properly discovering it.

Image was too charming, and so I was forced to borrow it, shamelessly, from the link above.

Organgami

Just one piece of a giant anatomical sculpture made entirely of paper:

No, it's not a food baby

This is how women used to have babies. Looks like way more fun, if that's possible. Well, maybe the lady is exaggerating a bit...

Bad Sex Award-Winner on My Shelf

For the offending passage, which, despite my usual lack of decorum, I will not repost here, see below. I should warn you that it is (A) hilarious and (B) involves thinking about what an ear looks like:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/25/haruki-murakami-bad-sex-award

Oedipus, The Devil, and Myself

I'm wrapping my head around a history book about witchcraft trying to reconcile gender as a symbolic notion with inherent (physiological) sexual difference. Surprisingly difficult with how much we think we know about women and something that I think hasn't necessarily caught on in history except with microhistories that deal largely with the subjectivity of single entities.

Also trying to reconcile a conversation I had at a bar about "maternal instincts."

Adventures @ Duke 2

Vote For The Most Goth 16th-Cent. Illustration (EVER)

Dryander

Valverde de Amusco

Vesalius

The Lady Anatomist reprise

For more on The Lady Anatomist, Morbid Anatomy just posted a great talk coming up:

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/01/lady-anatomist-life-and-work-of-anna.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FlZix+%28Morbid+Anatomy%29

And here is a gallery with more cool pictures:

Adventures @ Duke

Snowflake reprise

Check out this slideshow while listening to Tschaikovsky's Waltz of the Snowflakes

The Biology of Barcelona, part 2

Gaudi reinterpreted Haeckel's style and created his own biomorphic shapes for his grand-scale architecture:





Casa Battlo

And see this site for fantastic images of the Sagrada Familia: