If your love enjoys chocolates in the shape of open wounds found on corpses in the morgue, then these chocolates, created by conceptual artist Stephen Shanabrook, are for you. Pretty fantastically gross. I don’t really want to know how he got those molds made in the first place. {via Street Anatomy}
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Gobble These Guts
Posted: Monday, February 8th, 2010Heart to Heart
Posted: Monday, February 8th, 2010
Love this gutsy poster by Dora Drimalas! We always like it when someone includes the ol’ kidneys. {via Shelterific}
Pop Goes the Pancreas
Posted: Monday, February 8th, 2010
As if we hadn’t already guessed that soft drinks are lousy for your organs, a new study links soda drinking to pancreatic cancer, pretty much one of the worst cancers you can get. According to the University of Minnesota study, it’s all about the sugar. Researchers followed 60,524 folks in Singapore over 14 years, and found that those who drank more than two sodas a day increased their risk for pancreatic cancer by 87%. Scientists not involved with the study warn that cigarette smoking may also have something to do with it (Singaporeans are big puffers). Considering what diet soda does to your kidneys, it’s safe to say that sticking to less than two soft drinks a day is better for ya. {via US News and World Report}
Naming the Body
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010
The body has some wonderfully-named nooks and crannies, including, but not limited to, the pancreas’ islets of Langerhans, the part of the pancreas that contains endocrine cells. Lately we’ve been entranced by the sphincter of Oddi, a region of the duodenum in the lower stomach where digestive juices –mainly bile from the gallbladder and pancreatic juices — like to collect, socialize and digest. Even odder? The juices flow through something called the ampulla of Vater. We imagine most of the body’s naming rights were claimed long ago by the likes of Paul Langerhans, Ruggero Oddi and Abraham Vater, but I wouldn’t be suprised if pharmaceutical companies starting branding yet-unclaimed body parts. Pfizer Phagocytes or GlaxoSmithKline Glia anyone?
Hot Tub Lung
Posted: Friday, February 5th, 2010
File this under terrible afflictions with really funny names: hypersensitivity pneumonitis is also known as hot tub lung, known as it is for being contracted in unclean jacuzzis. Let’s hope mycobacterium avium intracellulare, the bacterium that cause the condition and thrive in super-hot water, aren’t growing inside your favorite hot tub. Via Radiology Picture of the Day.
More Gutsy E-cards!
Posted: Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Fun and free thyroid and spleen e-cards available for all your friends and family having not-so-fun thyroidectomy and splenectomy procedures. We’ve also got a vasectomy sympathy card with happy testicles and a pair of high-fiving kidneys to give to someone generous to donate his or her own kidney. Don’t see the special guts-related e-card you need? Let us know and we’ll try to make something special.
Eat Your Heart Out
Posted: Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Good to know that hearts taste like strawberries. Gross and exciting all at once! Available at Baron Bob’s. You can also feast upon chewy eyeballs, brains, ears, noses and severed feet.
Ads With Guts
Posted: Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Considering that Communication Arts magazine recently decreed that all graphic designers should create only one brain-related ad throughout their entire career, we sure have found a lot of wonderful and inspiring organ-related advertising out there. Some of our faves, this brain and heart Bose ad created by Lana Shahmoradian, and this gut-busting hoodie by Jason Sweeten and Kelly Miller, created as part of a street ad campaign for the SciFi (now SyFy) Channel, both featured in this month’s CMYK magazine. And to round things out, an ad by the Reborn to Be Alive Foundation in Belgium promotes organ donation by featuring a fetching lady in lingerie that reads: “Becoming a donor is probably your only chance to get inside her.” Ew.
Practice Makes Perfect
Posted: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
We dig this crazy Japanese “training baby,” sold for $670 over at Anatomy Warehouse. Not only can you practice your catheterization skills on this baby, you can change it from a boy to a girl in seconds with its detachable genital plates! Comes with a handy carrying case, urine collection bag and more. If only real babies were this easy…
Go Go Gadget Guts
Posted: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
The human body is such a well-oiled machine, it comes as no surprise that our organs are a great inspiration for gadgets of all kinds. We especially like this lung lamp, first spotted by the brains over at Street Anatomy; a gorgeous glowing glass red heart, included in Kazowie’s heart-filled gift guide; and this golden brain mouse (no, not that kind of mouse).
