We pay more for less. The system has an illness.

Massimo The human body is made of two things: hard bone and jiggly bits.

We really don’t understand the exact mechanism by which a punch can knock someone out. There are many theories though.

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Guinness book record for the highest-altitude Xray ever was at Everest Base Camp (5364 m, 17,598 ft above sea level) in 2022.

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The kids rescued from a cave in Thailand in 2018 were sedated for extraction with Xanax, atropine, and ketamine. A good anaesthetic combo similar to what I use for sedations in the ER.

Endorphins and enkephalins are the opiates of the masses.

A question for World of Engineering

Needed: a brief oncology consult for ER doctors who found new cancer on a CT scan, preferably before they deliver the news to patients.

Rates of nipple piercings seen on chest x-ray are skyrocketing in the US.

Doctor. Just kidding.

You learn the most about how something works by taking it apart. This includes the human body.

Pound for pound, the crowbar may be humanity’s greatest and most elegant invention ever.

Many many medical advances were discovered by doctors experimenting on themselves.

In modern American vernacular, “how are you” just means “hello.” It’s not really a question, but a greeting disguised as one.

A man ice fishing for tomcod in Kotzebue, Alaska (2014)

Be thankful that the latest virus got a catchy name like “covid.” We could have been stuck with another boring medical abbreviation like HIV.

The human eye has an exquisite design from molecular to cellular to macroscopic levels and beyond. Eyes are miraculous on every level! twitter.com/slava__bobrov/…

Humans have found many uses for animal bodies: eat them, make tools from them, extract medicines from their juices. But now with gene editing, we transplant whole organs from them into us. A new era. The baby with the baboon heart is going to live much longer than one month.