We continue our journey in the tasteful world of culinary medical metaphors. The ends of nerve cells are shaped like grapes. Infection with the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa can result in a grape-like odor. A malignant tumor – sarcoma botryoides – resembles a bunch of grapes in appearance. In fact several medical entities in look (and […]
Tag: Food
Food-related medical terms (food for thought)
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Gwinyai Masukume is joining our gang of regular bloggers. This is his first post at improbablecom.wpcomstaging.com. Please welcome him!] Besides food acting as source of energy for the brain during thinking, food (drinks, utensils, waiters, etc.) can literally be used for thought. Various situations encountered in medicine have been named after food […]
Tastes Like Chicken
Rocketboom reports on Joe Staton’s study “Tastes Like Chicken, which was published in volume 4, number 4 (in 1998) of the Annals of Improbable Research: Staton is a professor at the University of South Carolina. A chart from his study is reproduced below. You can find a pdf of the entire article here. BONUS: The study is cited […]
The venerable Powers of Ten video, but using food
Isaiah Saxon updates the venerable Powers of Ten video, using food [HT Vaughn Tan]: [vimeo]13899429[/vimeo] BONUS: The venerable Powers of Ten video, which Charles and Ray Eames made long ago for IBM: BONUS: The more obscure Powers of Nine video: