From HERE

IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS

And if you get too excited, here's a thing you can do

When Crocheting Gets Creepy

more HERE

Und mehr: HIER

See more in the series Sleep of the Beloved by Paul Schneggenburger

Listen to something beautiful and name the anatomists!

From HERE

From The Guardian

How Babies Are Made

The best/worst book you can buy on the subject

Article by Jason Silverstein

Coming soon in Playboy

Review forthcoming!

The Art of Natural History Dioramas

Sally: How do they get all these animals?
 Glen: Teddy Roosevelt killed them.
 Sally: Do you think they were a family?
 Glen: I hope so. Otherwise, they’d be walking around saying, “We just need a baby to finish this diorama.”

From The Atlantic

Objects of Life, in Death

New article on death masks from The Atlantic

Modern Dissections and Different Ethics

The Danes have been making headlines with their public dissections of animals--one giraffe and one lion, as well as others.

Like public anatomies of the past, it is considered educational. Today, there are more issues at hand--animal rights, understanding food, the innocence of children, etc. etc. Nonetheless, the zoo has made statements on each of these topics. An interesting topic, no matter where you stand.

Charité/Medizinhistorisches Museum, Berlin

Ruins of the old anatomical theater at the Berlin Medizinhistorisches Museum

Giant wooden skull

Moving simulation of how large bodies (such as that of a horse) were lifted into the tieranatomisches theater

Fingernails

Tieranatomisches Theater

Giant wooden brain with cross-sections

"injected face skin"

Wenzel Jamnitzer and trippy renaissance geometrics

These are from 1568:

More on Hyperallergic

World's Scariest Contraceptive Devices
via All That Is Interesting

THE EARLIEST EXAMPLE OF DECAPITATION AND WHY ARCHAEOLOGISTS SHOULD LEARN TO DRAW

You had me at Marzipan Skeleton

The edible skeleton of Daniel Sperry

courtesy of Hyperallergic

And something a little MORE REALISTIC

Skeletal Minions

From HERE

T-Shirts, the body, and vision

Check out these designs by Pablo Garcia:

The Body in Perspective

Your body, from top to bottom.
Posted by I fucking love science on Monday, September 28, 2015

And compare to this copy of Albrecht Dürer:

Also:

The Legend of Pregnancy by Bullet

Admittedly, I couldn't find an appropriate image for this one.

So here's the link

Braille and Tactile Education for the Blind

First, braille is a beautifully simple concept. To write your name in 2D braille form, go here.

And 3D braille tattoos are a thing!

There is also a lot of talk about 3D printing of models for the blind, but blista in Marburg has been doing it in a similar way for a long time.

Using Young Blood for the Old

This is apparently becoming a thing again, but it's an old concept. Even in the linked article, the author writes:

Wyss-Coray is not the first person to wonder whether the answer to the problem of ageing might lie in human blood. One of the first physicians to propose blood transfusions to rejuvenate older people was Andreas Libavius, a German doctor and alchemist. In 1615 he proposed connecting the arteries of an old man to those of a young man. He had high hopes for the procedure. “The hot and spirituous blood of the young man will pour into the old one as if it were from a fountain of youth, and all of his weakness will be dispelled,” he claimed, in an account told in the Textbook of Bloodbanking and Transfusion Medicine by Sally Rudmann. It is unclear how it turned out; there is no record of the transfusion happening.

... 

The fledgling years of the Royal Society, founded in London in 1660, witnessed some of the earliest experiments in blood transfusion. When Robert Boyle, one of the society’s founders, compiled a wishlist of scientific projects, the top entry was “The prolongation of life”. That might be achieved, he hoped, by replacing old blood with new.

But there are many more examples.

Use at will

Skeleton-Cuddler in the Newspaper

Just read the article

Here's a picture to get you started:

DIsturbing Wartime Experiments

This story on Japanese doctors doing live experiments--vivisection--on American POWs is one of the most disturbing things I've read in a long time.

FLAPPERHOUSE STORY: "PLACENTA"
A horror story about birth and death



And here's an equally...strange...placenta teddy bear:

from here--and there's more where that came from.

More from Morbid Anatomy

Based partially on a love for Johann Remmelin, whose works you can play with here:

Hardin Library Project

Tentacle Porn Goes Oral

YUP

The Bio-Sculptural Chandelier

Chandeliers by Adam Wallacavage

Gaudi, Casa Battlo

Forest chandelier by Hilden & Diaz

And one that uses bacteria:

The National Library of Medicine’s edition of Jehan Cousin’s Livre de Pourtraiture of 1608 had extra drapery drawn over the pudenda of the female protagonist, a censorship technique that had its heyday in the era of Michelangelo.

PMS, now called Fury Road

In the 17th century, cramps were also known as 'uterine fury'

(From Mad Max: Fury Road)

INDEPENDENCE DAY SHORTS

WOO 69