Fernando Vicente
Category: Art
A beautiful and macabre combination of anatomy and portraiture by Spanish artist Fernando Vicente....
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The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings
Category: Vintage Illustrations
These gorgeous stipple-engraved plates come from The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings, by Sir Charles Bell. The book was first published in 1802 and contained 12 plates, 11 of which were printed in colour; these...
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Halloween netsuke
Category: My photos
Netsuke are miniature Japanese sculptures which are most often carved from ivory or wood, and sometimes from other materials. They were first made in the early 17th century, and used to fasten a small box (the inro) containing medicines...
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Metaphysical self-trepanation
Category: Art
Artist Madeline von Foerster provides some insight into her extraordinary self portrait (above), in a comment posted on my article about trepanation: During a previous period of depression in my life, I often experienced a severe sensation of pressure...
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The Enigma of Op Art
Category: Art
Cataract 3, Bridget Riley, 1967. In the 1960s, the British artist Bridget Riley began to develop a distinctive style characterised by simple and repetitive geometric patterns which create vivid illusions of movement and sometimes colour and often have a...
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Beauty & the Brain
Category: Neuroscience
The new issue of Seed contains a short piece by me called Beauty and the Brain, about the emerging field of neuroaesthetics, which seeks to investigate the neural correlates of the appreciation of beauty in art. Neuroaesthetics was pioneered...
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Cutting out the stone of madness
Category: Art
At Bioephemera, Jessica has a fascinating post about depictions of madness in 15th-17th century art, during which time mental illness was popularly attributed to the presence of a "stone of madness" (or "stone of folly") in the head. One...
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The X-ray photographer
Category: Art
Common cockles, by Nick Veasey, who "uses x-ray technology to create mesmerizing and intriguing art"....
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70 million amazing rare things
Category: Evolutionary Biology
One of the events organized for Bora's visit to London was a fantastic behind-the-scenes tour of the Darwin Centre, a newly built section of the Natural History Museum which houses the museum's researchers and contains a vast collection of...
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Frida Kahlo's life of pain
Category: Art
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) had a life filled with pain. At the age of 6, she contracted polio, and this caused a paralysis of the right leg from which Kahlo took one year to recover. Then, in...
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