One way to measure a human subject’s intranasal volume is to perform a structural whole-brain T1-weighted MRI scan, and then use computerised volumetric image analysis software on the resulting data. But is there an easier way? Yes, there is, according to a group of researchers from the Taste and Smell Clinic, University Hospital Carl Gustav […]
Tag: body parts
Mapping noses in the Basque Country
Anthropologist Esther Rebato [pictured here] of the University of the Basque Country has mapped the presence of nasal characteristics in people who dwell in the Basque Country. Her study is: “Aspectos métricos y morfoscópicos de la región nasal en vascos [“Metric aspects and morphoscopic the nasal region in Basques”],” Esther Rebato, Munibe Antropologia – Arkeologia, no. […]
Magazine: “And More Body Parts” Issue
The special And More Body Parts issue (vol. 18, no. 2) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) is now online. It’s got lots about feet and heads and belly navels—and much more. The pleasing-paper version was mailed to subscribers a short while ago. Click on the magazine cover (below) to download a free PDF, […]
Body parts, and then some
This curious music video, featuring a naked woman and then some,and then less, and then more, is more or less about body parts. So is the January/February issue of the Annals of Improbable Research, but in different ways. [vimeo]23959917[/vimeo] (via io9)
Magazine: Body Parts issue
The special body parts issue (vol. 18, no. 1) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) is now online. It’s got lots about feet and heads and belly navels—and much more. The pleasing-paper version was mailed to subscribers today. Click on the magazine cover (below) to download a free PDF, or buy a high-quality […]
Coroners & Body Part Sales: Perspective
Some historical perspective for the case of the New Orleans coroner whose election opponent is accusing him of selling body parts: “Whose body is it anyway?: trading the dead poor, coroner’s disputes, and the business of anatomy at Oxford University, 1885-1929,” Elizabeth T. Hurren, Bull Hist Med, Winter 2008;82(4):775-818. The author, at Wellcome Trust Centre […]
Coroner as Frankenstein in NO
Forensic science, in a manner of speaking, is all the rage in In New Orleans. One candidate for coroner — Dwight McKenna — is running this TV ad. It accuses the other candidate, Frank Minyard, the incumbent, of being a Dr. Frankenstein who sells body parts. (Thanks to Rose Fox and TPM for bringing this […]