Get Your Vampire Study On

Some scholarly sources on vampires in New England:


Bell (2004), Vampires and death in New England, 1784 to 1892 http://www.yorku.ca/kdenning/+++2150%202007-8/BellVampiresandDeath.pdf


Sledzik & Bellantoni (1994), Vioarcheological and biocultural evidence for the New England vampire folk beliefhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8085617

Tuberculosis: HOT or NOT?

https://deadmaidens.com/2017/03/16/tubercular-venus-when-the-beauty-standard-was-dying/

Medical article about tampons, 1945

from HERE

Album covers, back from the dead

I've written before about the album art of Joy Division (including the sandpaper album cover meant to destroy other album covers)

Just as artist’s books are surviving in the underground, there are artists still pushing the boundaries of album art. These are some very cool examples: one set is permanently sealed within its sleeve and has remnants of the artist’s own blood.  Another has human ashes (as described on the sleeve) that are crushed and painted onto the playing surface of the record.

Talk about putting yourself into your music.

Pictures and info HERE

Sound HERE

Blood Lamp

See the video by Mike Thompson at Thought Collider:

Blood Stains on different surfaces.
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The Colors of Blood

Many of us know that horseshoe crabs have creepily periwinkle blue blood, but other animals can range from green to clear.

See the full story HERE from National Geographic

And here's a handy chart from Compound Interest

A HISTORY OF MENSTRUATION

Do Mermaids Menstruate?

The Mary Sue tackling this important question with all sorts of lady creatures.

The Art of Menses

"Menstrala"

Zanele Muholi’s “Ummeli” (2011)

Here's a link to Salon's article on menstruation and contemporary art.

For some insight, see "Women wearing white: Discourses of menstruation and the experience of menarche" by Theresa Jackson

And more blood

On MENOTOXINS and how the ancient and early modern fears of menstruation revived in the 20th century.

And a semi-appropriate music video to go along with it:

Blood

The Latest in Anatomical Curiosity from Radiolab:

Blood

Popes, Scandal, and Blood Transfusions

From Wikipedia:

Papist and other Catholic authors take pains to discredit the story of Innocent VIII's deathbed [by Stefano Infessura]. As the Pope sank into a coma, "the harrowing story was told that, at the suggestion of a Jewish physician, the blood of three boys was infused into the dying pontiff’s mouth (the concept of circulation and methods for intravenous access did not exist at that time). They were ten years old, and had been promised a ducat each. All three died." Historians of medicine note this event as the first recorded historical attempt at a blood transfusion.