This tweet by May Berenbaum will lead you, if you let it, to an entomological adventure: Testing vampire spider preferences by transplanting male mosquito heads on female mosquito bodies. It’s alive!! See J Exp Biol 6/7 Berenbaum refers, tersely, to this study: “The discerning predator: decision rules underlying prey classification by a mosquito-eating jumping spider,” Ximena […]
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Rini’s riveting mummy heads
This photo by Dario Piombino-Mascali, EURAC, and Clinical Anatomy/Wiley is one of several featured in James Owen’s National Geographic article “Mummy Pictures: Secrets of Stunning 19th-Century Heads Revealed“: Owen explains: “Working in the town of Salò, anatomist Giovan Battista Rini (1795-1856) “petrified” the corpses and body parts by bathing them in a cocktail of mercury and other […]
Whack on the side of head spurs creativity
Today’s Stimulating Medical Publication Title of the Day is: “Whack on the side of head spurs creativity,” D. Chase, OR Manager, 1992 Feb;8(2):16-7. The authors is, or was, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. [NOTE: The “OR” here is an acronym for “Operating Room”]
More scientists with their heads in the clouds
Investigator Ben Brockert answered our call to find more scientists whose heads are in the clouds (as documented in photos on their own web sites). Here are; Philip Rasch, Paul DeMott, and the pseudonymous Wandering Scientist (click on each image to go to the corresponding web site):