“ Ever feel like they made a mistake letting you into medical school? ”
Classmate reflecting after worrying about the lecture material not sinking in during exam review. (via medicalstate)
Limulus polyphemus
Nicknamed a living fossil, the horseshoe crab is an adaptable, hard-shelled invertebrate that pre-dates most species on the planet—it’s been crawling around for a cool 445 million years, way before flying insects, humans, and even dinosaurs. In fact, they’ve survived five mass extinctions, including the Mesozoic extinction 65 million years ago when Earth said goodbye to the dinosaurs. Today, they just chill in the warm, shallow coastlines of Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, and Eastern North America, occasionally contributing to medical research. Their super-blood is blue and copper-based, protecting them from infection by clotting in the presence of toxic bacteria, and pharmaceutical companies test the purity of IV drugs, vaccines and medical devices with a blood extract called Limulus amebocyte lysate. Ever had a flu shot? Yeah, a horseshoe crab could have just saved your life.
“ It is the photographing of ordinary things, in extraordinary light, which results in extraordinary photographs. ”
David Young
30/365 (via arthurfields)
“ It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter ”
Alfred Eisenstaedt (via beyondthedarkroom)
excerpt:
As it turns out, there is a direct connection between male-biased societies and the attitudes expressed towards women. Research in cultural anthropology in the decades after Bowlby has shown that what anthropologists call “patrilocal societies” - societies in which men stay in the communities they are born into while women marry into outlying regions - tend to be more patriarchal, with an emphasis on controlling women’s freedom of movement, expression and reproduction. Societies with more flexible residence patterns, in which females have the option to remain in their home group near helpful kin or to move between groups, tend to be more egalitarian with higher levels of female control over their own lives and the lives of their children. Hunter-gatherers, the foraging societies that most closely approximate how our Pleistocene ancestors would have lived, are generally multi-local, with parents opportunistically moving between father’s and mother’s kin, or even joining some new group.
However, most farming societies today are based on patrilocal residence - and this suggests that a dramatic shift occurred when humans first invented agriculture approximately 12,000 years ago.
These are from the wonderful Picturing the Museum section on the American Museum of Natural History website. Lots more goodies there if you like museums, history, museum history, dioramas, or kids looking adorable.
(Image credit: American Museum of Natural History Library)
