Ever think about how the brain named itself?
Brains
This is Joy Reidenberg. She is a comparative anatomist based out of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. She has done thousands of dissections on everything, and is the star of a new TV show called “Inside Nature’s Giants.” Here, she and veterinary scientist Mark Evans dissect a sperm whale that washed up on a British beach.
Watch the dissection here and see how excited she is! http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/02/06/science/100000001333363/inside-a-sperm-whale.html
Anathomia ossium corporis humani, the oldest surviving anatomical rendering of the human skeleton.
Apparently this caused an uproar in the science world after nearly eight centuries of repression by religious groups that maintained hegemony throughout the dark ages.
Hieronymus Brunschwig, 1497.
Julie Moss. This was the video that I was looking for during Anatomy class. Enjoy the fantastic world of muscle fatigue!
Whitney’s peptic ulcer t-shirt.
Richard Dawkins, on the laryngeal nerve of the giraffe.
