Fellow Travelers - Our Microbiome Illustrated
A little art to go with the latest episode of the YouTube show.
The human microbiome (and microbiomes in general) may just be my favorite subject in biology. This intricate, and in many ways still-mysterious, microbial ecosystem that each of us carry in and on our bodies affects so much of our life! Are we humans, or super-organisms? And to think that we have been completely ignorant of it for so long…
Here’s some of my favorite impressions of human microbiome science as captured through the eyes of artists. Links for each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
(via thisfuturemd)
- Drinking cholera
- Severing your own nerves
- Jumping from airplane at 40,000 feet — without oxygen
- Living on a weight scale — for 30 years
- Injecting your own penis with venereal disease
- The entire life of J.B.S. Haldane — what a scientific beast!
Science Day in India, posting whole series of Scientists, their, inventions or discoveries.
(via mistressofsurgery)

Plate Vb Human Skull, engraving by William Miller after drawing by W Miller, published in Engravings of the Skeleton of the Human Body.
John Gordon MD. Blackwood, Edinburgh 1818
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i told myself a long time ago that i was going to draw some loser science-y valentines and only now am I doing it so here you go.
by the way, the brown one is supposed to be a liver cell, and the liver is the major sugar producing organ in your body GET IT GET IT?????
gosh i need to get a life
LOVE IT. Happy Valentine’s day!
Love: Brain Comic Samples by Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham
For Valentine’s Day eve!
Check out this mouse party to find out. It’s actually a pretty amazing game/animation for understanding the neurophysiology of several prominent drugs.
Link here
Pretty nifty.
(via UrbanOutfitters.com > Mushroom Specimen Poster)
I took a mycology course in college. So this? Is totally awesome.