for instance, the intense use of ultrasound and the visualization of the fetus through the screen promotes the view of the fetus as vulnerable, thus possibly increasing anxiety and guilt in pregnant people. Edv
This isn’t new to science, it’s just one of the cool little quirks of human and comparative anatomy that more people should be aware of. Quick-quick background: autonomic (unconscious, involuntary) innervation of the body comes in two flavors, sympathetic and parasympathetic. Sympathetic nerve...
And the ribcage is also a projection area, on which a video is played that shows the internal organs and how they work. With a voice-over that explains the actions in simple terms, the principle of the avian-style unidirectional lung and the air sacs is explained (albeit with a small ...
numerous tetrapods have lost one or both pairs of limbs, and, heck, the platypuslost its stomach. But I rarely see hypotheses of derived simplification entertained for organs like hearts
And the ribcage is also a projection area, on which a video is played that shows the internal organs and how they work. With a voice-over that explains the actions in simple terms, the principle of the avian-style unidirectional lung and the air sacs is explained (albeit with a small ...
In addition to providing large amounts of oxygen, the air sacs give rise to a network of pneumatic diverticula. These diverticula spread throughout the body: in between the internal organs, between the bodies of the muscles, and even under the skin. If one of these diverticula comes into co...
butcher’s shop and saying “One of your finest pig’s heads, please, my stout yeoman!”. I got Veronica by googling for “ostrich farm” and emailing the ones in the UK asking whether any of them had any heads to spare. I urge you, and anyone else who loves anatomy, to do the ...
(I have much more disgusting photos than this one, but it wouldn’t be tasteful to show them.) Anyway, I abandoned my initial plan of dissecting the organs out, and basically just removed and discarded them. I’ve actually had shamefully little experience with dead animals, so I don’t ...
satisfying for me, as is reading other people’s descriptions of weird anatomy. But I’m also in despair about how much basic descriptive work remains to be done, because the answers to so many questions are still over the horizon from us, and probably will be for the rest of my life....
“dinosaurs” for “lions” or “blizzards” and those plotlines would work just as well if the last humans are escaping to the Serengeti or Antarctica. Going into the past brings up the possibility of Them–the intelligent non-human adversary–and the writers will not be able to resist ...