The blundering Jackal and his urological downfall

Maybe you’ve heard of ilich ramirez sanchez, aka carlos the jackal. maybe you haven’t… that’s ok too. I  don’t want to go into a full biography of this dude, not here. not now. briefly, other than being a collector of

Power and Headgear

___________________________________________ Thank you Kohen Gadol for the idea of formal shaman urban-turban wear Thank you Michael III, the drunkard, for making it imperially cool to wear hats Thank you Leo IX for the Papal Bull, delineating who was entitled to

Elephantine Musticulator Disorders

This is a normal spleen. It weighs about 150 grams and serves to filter bacteria and old red blood cells out of your circulation every day. And this is the United States Supreme court. It weighs in every so often

Our Man in New Guinea

Zenker’s Diverticulum

There’s some pretty complex arrangements your trachea makes every time you swallow. Think and it shall be done. Notice the outcropping in the distal pharynx as the fluid runs down. That’s not normal… unless you’re part bird. The esophagus has

Good Company

In 1983 the meter was defined by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) as the distance travelled by light in free space in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second Good to know

the candyland doctrine, china and short-term memories

Governing China is like holding a mad wolf by the ears. A foaming, mad wolf with rabies. if you try to let go, you get munched. the only hope is to hold tight. This is the mainstay of post-mao modernization

My Uncle Smut, the Beekeeper

I don’t think Smut was his real name. I have a feeling it was something like Virgil or Otto. I don’t know why he got that name. He had a lot of bees in his garden and he liked to

Man and his diagrams

You need pattern. you crave it. It’s part of your hard-wiring. Look at the image, it doesn’t move, but your eyes scan all over it with rapid acuity. They look for edges, they look for definition…. familiarity. You internalize it,

Hero seed for your lawnscape

A lot of firsts for the man in the saddle. The first president to be divorced, the first president to survive an assasination, He ranked as the Greatest American in an “unscientific poll” carried out by Matt Lauer. Matt Lauer

Highlights in Embryology

One of the most captivating subjects in all Medical School is First Year Embryology. It’s the subject you keep coming back to. One of the best teachers in the field is the affable, Dr. Gerald Cizadlo. He teaches in Duluth,

Paris Syndrome: Sunday June 23, 1940 6am

Recipe for misguided aesthetics casserole: take a handful of failed, sheltered artists and let them have a go at rewiring human nature give them lots of money, acclaim, power…. cameras go ahead and give a few of them mustaches host

429 years in jail

This is the story of Mr. Anthony Hislar. He’s 27. In September 2008, Mr. Hislar was arrested at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, where he was eluding police. Disneyland is just the kind of place you might want to hide out

Taken For a Ride

Streetcars used to move America.  Now that the auto industry is choking on their own crap, they want everybody to give them a hand. But what exactly did these guys ever do for the public good? Taken for a Ride

Gary Busey- “I’m going to pull your Endocrine System out of your body”

Most streetfighters in the know would go for the heart or the kidneys, brushing off a pan-endocrine-ectomy as well-nigh impossible- especially with just one or two hands. “Ha” says Mr Gary. Photoshop B.U.S.E.Y. is shrine to the power of one

zeugmatography