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Day of the Dead at the Zoo

Category: Artists & Art

Seen in Cambridge, MA: a red-eyed skeletal zombie hippo. Paint-your-own ceramics was never like this when I was a kid!...

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Escherichia Ophelia

Category: Artists & Art

The very epitome of bioephemera, from Microbial Art: Artist JoWOnder presents a pre-Raphaelite painting of Ophelia created with bacteria. The demise of the painting is filmed using time-lapse photography, showing a story of death and creation of new life....

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Dia de los Muertos + Boston = Skeletal Teddy Kennedy

Category: Artists & Art

One of the coolest, weirdest, worlds-colliding Day of the Dead artworks I've ever seen is this sculpture of a skeletal Teddy Kennedy. He's at a podium, open-jawed (no doubt haranguing other late Senators), accompanied by a skeletal dog. The paper...

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Birth control, the crochet way

Category: Biology

OK: I'm female AND a biologist, and looking at this one freaks ME out! I'm all in favor of appreciating the beauty of female anatomy and miracle of childbirth and all, but this pasty, long-limbed newborn doll with a detatchable...

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The blood of the city: Heather L. Johnson

Category: Artists & Art

To follow up on my post on Kevin Van Aelst, here's an anatomically-inspired artwork by Heather L. Johnson, whose new show, "Air and Blood", opens this month in NYC: Using the Holland Tunnel as a point of departure, the...

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Even Hello Kitty's guts are sickeningly cute

Category: Biology

Via Inventorspot: Hello Kitty goes anatomical, and we discover she even has bows on her guts. Yikes! But seriously - the second, faux-ivory Hello Kitty looks a little familiar. According to Inventorspot, you can choose from regular style or...

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2010 Stetten Fellowship in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology or Medicine (NIH)

Category: Medical Illustration and History

Just saw this posting: The Stetten Fellowship seeks to encourage postdoctoral historical research and publication about biomedical sciences and technology and medicine that has been funded by NIH since 1945. Fellowships carry a stipend in the range of $45,000 per...

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Your brain - on Van Aelst

Category: Artists & Art

Photographer Kevin Van Aelst's work is clever, funny, and meticulous to a fault.

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Maybe you have a kidney in YOUR wrist. . .

Category: Biology

Okay, so this apron by Aksel Varichon is awesome. Very fun. But what's with the oven mitt? If the premise of the apron is that we're seeing internal anatomy partially revealed on the wearer's body, doesn't the matching mitt...

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What You're Made Of

Category: Artists & Art

What You're Made Of (ABS) Jason Freeny, 2009 Anatomy teachers: this would be an awesome quiz for your students, wouldn't it? :) Jason Freeny is the digital artist behind Balloon Animal anatomy, Gummi Bear anatomy, and the dissected Gingerbread...

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