Many of you have written in to suggest making some sort of graphic showing where all the guts and glands live in the body, and I’ve finally gotten around to creating one. It’s even got rollovers so you can learn more about, say, your pineal gland, should you have time to squander. For the purposes of simplicity, we’ve made the body a hermaphrodite — she’s got a uterus to go with her prostate and testes! We’ll call her/him Hermie.
Your mom always tiold you not to swallow gum, and here’s another good reason to leave the sticky stuff out of your stomach — you can make fantastic art with it. Kevin Van Aelst has fashioned his chewed-up Bubble Yum and Trident into a wonderfully tiny digestive system, stuck it under a table, and took a photo. Take the time to check out his chromosomes fashioned from Gummi Worms and heart made from a pile of laundry. {via Boing Boing}
German artist and self-proclaimed nut Christoph Brach serves up his commentary on human anatomy with help from a little bit of rubber and a whole lot of oxygen. What an impressive set of guts!
Considering the fact that I look at internal organs all day long for a living, my score on the name all the internal organs in four minutes quiz is shamefully bad. I only got 15 out of 24 total organs, isn’t that pathetic? Granted, it was mainly because I didn’t really read the directions and forgot to pluralize things like parathyroids and ovaries (and jeez, who knew the esophagus would be included, but skin wouldn’t? And they rejected spelling gallbladder as one word. I say, look it up in the dictionary, bitches). Anyway, learn from my mistakes, pluralize, and take the quiz. The clock does start ticking right away, so be ready to go when you click on the link and don’t dawdle like I did.
This marks the first in an occasional series that examines the organs that failed some of the world’s most interesting people — let’s begin with Andy Warhol’s gallbladder! Warhol died in 1987 following gallbladder surgery, but his gall was giving him grief long before surgery. He had recurring gallbladder problems that he didn’t keep up with allegedly because of fears about doctors and hospitals. The gallbladder is one of two organs humans can do without (the spleen is the other) and about a half-million Americans had their gallbladders removed last year alone. Nowadays, it’s generally done laproscopically, and is quite routine, but things can definitely go wrong. When his gallbladder became infected, a sonogram showed it had become enlarged and a routine surgery to remove the pesky organ was underway. Complications following surgery led to his death at age 58. What a bummer!
More brand-new tees in stock, including men’s and women’s intestine “I Heart Your Guts” t-shirts and our fancy new “Gall of the Wild” gall bladder shirt for men and women. Be the first on your block to wear your bowels on the outside! I have finally caved to consumer trends and have made separate colors for men and women’s tees. Apparently real men don’t wear pink.
The new gall bladder tee also means we’ve got the goods for a Gall Bladder Gift Pack. Woo hoo! And for those of you waiting for the Smells Like Spleen Spirit t-shirt, we’ve got that back in stock, this time in Kelly Green, in all sizes, finally. Thanks for being so patient!
