I scratched my head with my glove without thinking today, and wondered if I displaced some conspicuous brain up there (I do have some of it that is inconspicuous). It would have been gruesome but awesome ( Read more... )

So we walked in on the first day of lab this quarter, and the bodies are all gone, except for the head and neck. Imagine a halloween shop where there are head masks on tables. Can you picture it? There are some with oozing head wounds and some with eyes open, but the eyes are sunken. All heads are shaven but there are some with beards, blond ( Read more... )

Last week we opened up the chest wall and dissected out the lungs. The left lung, the only one that was still intact in our body, both fit well with my mental model of it, and yet was new and unfamiliar. The texture and weight were unexpected. It is incredible to hold it and imagine that it is responsible for such important functions. Today we ( Read more... )