This is one of the few medically documented claims of ear menstruation: “Menstruation by the Ear, ” New York Medical Journal, August 5, 1899, p. 201. Here’s the beginning of that report: (Thanks to the Amboceptor Blog for bringing this to our attention.)
Tag: blood
Art for the anatomist: Menau’s blood vein carafes
Etienne Menau makes vein carafes—carafes that look like giant blood veins or (if you’re picky about scale) arteries. Here’s one being filled with red wine: Menau makes other patterned, strange carafes, too. (Thanks to investigator Susan Dalton for bringing this to our attention.)
A blood-y good documentary from the 1950s
Hemo the Magnificent is a documentary about the human blood circulatory system. Directed by Frank Capra for the Bell Telephone System (for the public good, and for good garnering goodwill), it stars comic actor Sterling Holloway, cartoon voice performers Mel Blanc and June Foray, and two more somber-seeming hosts. Part 1: Part 2: (HT Bella Seaberg) BONUS: By […]
Bushman on Sweets (2): Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, Sugar
If you like to read about sugar or about aggressiveness, Brad J. Bushman [pictured here] and colleagues have a study perhaps worth some moments of your time: “Sweetened blood cools hot tempers: physiological self-control and aggression,” C. Nathan DeWall, Timothy Deckman, Matthew T. Gailliot, Brad J. Bushman, Aggressive Behavior, 2011 Jan-Feb;37(1):73-80. The authors explain: “Aggressive […]