$25 at the Street Anatomy store!

Photography by Alfonso Monroy

Inspired by the medical oddities in the famous Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, SARO’s signature cyclops skulls are now available in t-shirt form. Blow away those ubiquitous skull shirts and show your pride for the one-socket skull!

• 2 color screen print on soft Fruit of the Loom 50/50 shirts
• 100% cotton, preshrunk
• T-shirt color: black
• Unisex shirt sizes only
• Available in small, medium, and large – in the photos above, Adam (6’4″) is wearing a large and I’m (5’5″) wearing a small
• $25 at the Street Anatomy store!

Feel free to email me at vanessa@streetanatomy.com if you have questions about sizing.

Also, read our interview with SARO to learn more about the man behind the street art.

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Credits: Creative Direction – Francesco Franch, Art Direction – Federico Galvani, Illustration & Craftwork -Andrea Manzati

Seeing this gorgeous work by Italian illustrator and designer, Andrea Manzati makes me want to get out some clay and actually make something.  Andrea built these letter forms by crafting plasticine clay into anatomical parts on top of a design as you can see above.  The end effect is a fun and slightly whimsical take on human anatomy and typography.

Created for Italian magazine, IL (Intelligence in Lifestyle), Andrea says, “The article was all about the meaning of life nowadays so we had the idea of making a “living” lettering, with muscles, skeleton, veins and an heart, that looks similar to the plastic mannequins used to learn anatomy at schools.”

View more of Andrea’s work at alconic.it.

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I am SO very excited to (finally!) announce the lineup for this years' Congress of and for Curious Peoples, taking place this April 13-22 at Coney Island USA!

For those of you new to the concept, The Congress of Curious Peoples is a 10-day series of lectures and performances devoted to curiosity and curiosities broadly considered. If features sideshow acts, lectures, performances, and a 2-day scholarly-yet-popular symposium called The Congress for Curious Peoples, which is produced by The Morbid Anatomy Library in tandem with The Coney Island Museum.

This year's Congress for Curious Peoples symposium will feature panel discussions on such topics as pre-cinematic immersive amusements and religion as spectacle, while some of the featured speakers will be Sara Velas of The Velaslavasay Panorama; Paul Koudounaris of Empire of Death; an as-of-yet unnamed representative of the amazing Sleep No More; and Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty. Also featured will be stand-alone lectures on the 17th century artist of fetal skeleton tableaux Frederik Ruysch and the phenomenon of ethnographic displays called "human zoos," a screening of an over-the-top early 1970s TV Evangelist Christmas spectacular, and introductory lectures by myself and Coney Island Museum director Aaron Beebe.

Full lineup below; hope to see you at some--if not more--of the terrific events making up this year's Congress!

SYMPOSIUM: THE 2012 CONGRESS FOR CURIOUS PEOPLE
Saturday and Sunday, April 21st and 22nd

SATURDAY APRIL 21st

11:00 – 12:00: Keynote Addresses

• Joanna Ebenstein, Morbid Anatomy Library
• Aaron Beebe, Coney Island Museum

12:00 – 1:00: Lunch

1:00 – 3:30: Immersive Amusements: Cosmoramas, Cycloramas and Panoramic Illusions: Panel discussion moderated and introduced by Aaron Beebe, The Coney Island Museum

• Suzanne Wray
• Sara Velas, The Velaslavasay Panorama
• Jessica Routhier, The Saco Museum
• Errki Huhtamo, UCLA
• Russell Potter, Rhode Island College
• Denise Blake Oleksijczuk, Simon Fraser University

4:00 – 5:00: The Business of the Dead: Frederik Ruysch as an Entrepreneurial Anatomist, Lecture by Daniel Margocsy, Hunter College

5:00: Christmas in America: Miss Velma and the Evangelist Spectacle: Screening of “Christmas in America,” an early 1970s television special by Miss Velma, early TV evangelist, introduced by Daniel Paul

SUNDAY APRIL 22

11:00 – 1:00: Religion and Spectacle: A panel with discussion moderated and introduced by Joanna Ebenstein, Morbid Anatomy Library

• Paul Koudounaris, author of Empire of Death
• Shannon Taggart, Photographer
  
• The Venerable Tsering Phunstok
• Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty

1:00 – 2:30: Lunch and Sideshow Visit

2:30 – 3:30: Traveling Ethnographic Shows and Human Zoos, a lecture by Elizabeth Bradley

3:30 – 5:30: Theater Rethunk: An Alternative History of the Theatrical: A panel with discussion moderated and introduced by Chris Muller

• Amy Herzog, Queens College
• An as-of-yet unnamed representative of Sleep No More
• Chris Muller, New York University
• Dick Zigun, Founder of Coney Island USA

And now, for the full 10-day Congress Schedule:

Friday, April 13
Opening Night Party featuring The Lizard Man and the annual inductions into the Sideshow Hall of Fame.

Saturday, April 14
Alumni Weekend at Sideshows by the Seashore (Continuous Admission, Tickets at the door); Colonnade of Curiosities in the Freak Bar.

Sunday, April 15
Alumni Weekend at Sideshows by the Seashore (Continuous Admission, Tickets at the door); Colonnade of Curiosities in the Freak Bar

Monday April 16th
7:30 – (Lecture) Amy Herzog: Architectural Fictions: Economic Development, Immersive Renderings, and the Virtualization of Brooklyn
9:00 – (Performance) Shea Love and the Circus Emporium

Tuesday April 17th
7:30 – (Lecture) Philip Kadish: “Pinhead Races and the White Man’s Burden”
9:00 – (Performance) The Squidling Bros Sideshow

Wednesday April 18th
7:30 -(Lecture/Performance) ‘An Evening of Fate, Chance and Mystery’ with Lord Whimsy and Les the Mentalist
9:00 – (Performance) Jo Boobs

Thursday April 19th
7:30 – (Lecture/Performance) Erkki Huhtamo: “Mareorama Revisited”
9:00 – (Performance) The Curious Couple from Coney Island

Friday April 20th
7:30 – (Performance/Reading) “Venus,” a play by Suzan Lori Parks
9:00 – (Performance/Lecture) Sideshow Legend Jim Rose

Saturday April 21st
Super Freak Weekend at Sideshows by the Seashore (Continuous Admission, Tickets at the door); Colonnade of Curiosities in the Freak Bar
Congress For Curious People (Day 1 of a 2-day Symposium)

Sunday April 22nd
Super Freak Weekend at Sideshows by the Seashore (Continuous Admission, Tickets at the door); Colonnade of Curiosities in the Freak Bar
Congress For Curious People (Day 2 of a 2-day Symposium)

Tickets for the symposium are available here; for tickets to individual events and lectures, click here; 10-day Congressional Passes--which provide access to all events!--are available here. All events take place at 1208 Surf Avenue in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York; you can map it here. See you there!!!

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To all makers, distributors, and artists of the arcane and the curious: this call for vendors for this year's just-posted-on Congress of Curious Peoples just in from Adam the Real Man of Coney Island USA:

Coney Island USA's Congress of Curious Peoples has a few vendor spots left!
The Congress of Curious Peoples is Coney Island USA's annual celebration of Oddity and Oddities. It begins with the Sideshow Hall of Fame induction event and continues with a 10-day series of performances and lectures on Curiosity and Curiosities, featuring notable faces from the sideshow world and talks by international scholars. The final weekend of the Congress includes a 2-day symposium and performances by some of Coney Island's most important sideshow stars.

Now in its 6th year, the Congress is meant to build a community of scholars, practitioners, vendors, and enthusiasts; centered around a field with its home in Coney Island. It is quickly expanding to become an important gathering of people who are interested in the past, present, and future of sideshows, dime museums, cabinets of curiosity, 19th and 20th century spectacular culture, and the obscure American performing arts that Coney Island USA is dedicated to preserving.

We expect between 500 and 1,000 individuals to pass through our doors in the course of events, and they are all committed aficionados of all things curious.

So if you're an artist who's work reflects the curious, the strange, the macabre, the bizarre and the wondrous and wishlike to be considered as a vendor, please contact congressvendors@gmail.com.

More on the event itself can be found here. Hope to see you there.

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There is a fruitful branch of homoeopathic magic which works by means of the dead; for just as the dead can neither see nor hear nor speak, so you may on homoeopathic principles render people blind, deaf and dumb by the use of dead men’s bones or anything else that is tainted by the infection of death...

In Europe [such] properties were ascribed to the Hand of Glory, which was the dried and pickled hand of a man who had been hanged. If a candle made of the fat of a malefactor who had also died on the gallows was lighted and placed in the Hand of Glory as in a candlestick, it rendered motionless all persons to whom it was presented; they could not stir a finger any more than if they were dead. Sometimes the dead man’s hand is itself the candle, or rather bunch of candles, all its withered fingers being set on fire; but should any member of the household be awake, one of the fingers will not kindle. Such nefarious lights can only be extinguished with milk. Often it is prescribed that the thief’s candle should be made of the finger of a new-born or, still better, unborn child; sometimes it is thought needful that the thief should have one such candle for every person in the house, for if he has one candle too little somebody in the house will wake and catch him. Once these tapers begin to burn, there is nothing but milk that will put them out. In the seventeenth century robbers used to murder pregnant women in order thus to extract candles from their wombs...
--The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer, 1922

You can read many more such factoids in the fantastic The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by Sir James George Frazer, published in 1922; you can read it online by clicking here, or purchase a hard copy (as I have done) by clicking here.

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Very much hope to see you at this newly announced class, the latest addition to the Morbid Anatomy Art Academy series I am organizing at Observatory!

Comparative Anatomy: Animals and the Fundamentals of Drawing Weekend Workshop
A weekend workshop with Chris Muller, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts
Dates: Saturday May 5 & Sunday May 6
Time: 1 - 4 PM
Fee: $75 (includes museum admission)
*** Class size limited to 15; Must RSVP to morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy

Using animal and human anatomy as a jumping off point, this course will look at the ground-level, first principles of drawing as representation. Focusing mainly on mammal anatomy, we’ll look at the basic shared forms between humans and other animals, how these forms dictate movement, and how to express those forms.

Saturday’s class will be held at Observatory, where with the aid of several skeletons we’ll look at basic structures, sprinkling our exploration with odd facts and observations. Messy investigatory drawings will ensue.

Sunday’s class will be a field trip to the American Museum of Natural History, where applying the principles of Saturday’s class we’ll create beautiful drawings of the animals on display. Then, mastery attained, we will stride forth into the world, better artists and better people.

Materials

Saturday

• Sketchbook or sketchpad, 11 X 14 or larger
• B and HB pencils
• Colored pencils, in the reds and blues and browns
• Hand pencil sharpener
• Erasers

Sunday

• All of the above, with perhaps a portable sketchbook in place of the larger sketchpad
• Portable folding stool (optional)

Chris Muller is an artist and exhibit designer based in Brooklyn. He has designed exhibits for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum for African Art, the Children's Museum of Manhattan, and many others. He has designed sets for Laurie Anderson, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, the Atlantic Theater Company, and others. He teaches drawing and digital painting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

You can find out more here; you can RSVP by emailing me at morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com. You can find out more about the Morbid Anatomy Art Academy by clicking here.

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In the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, when natural history was still called philosophy and most naturalists were amateurs, collectors would create what they called cabinets of curiosities — accumulations of animal, vegetable, mineral and anthropological specimens to amaze and amuse.

Often these collections grew large enough to occupy entire rooms, or even buildings. In some cases, they turned out to be precursors of modern museums.

In a way, that was the kind of project seven Philadelphia men embarked on in 1812, when they rented premises over a millinery shop, gathered a few preserved insects, some seashells and not much more, and created the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia...

--"Cupboards of Curiosities Spill Over," Cornelia Dean, The New York Times

The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences has a lot going for it. It is the oldest natural science research institution and natural history museum in the New World, with a history stretching back to 1812. It boasts the Titian R. Peale Butterfly and Moth Collection, a lot of nearly 100 glass boxes containing said insects arranged in pleasingly geometric patterns by Titian Peale, son of painter and first American museologist Charles Willson Peale (see 4th image down). It boasts fossils collected by American president and Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson. It also houses an incredibly vast and utterly astounding collection of natural history artifacts, books, taxidermy, skeletons, wet specimens and more. More's the pity, then, that you would never suspect the quality and breadth of this collection by its public face, which gives one the impression that The Academy is merely a bland, second-rate natural history museum aimed at easily distractable children.

I am very pleased to report, then, that the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences has used the pretext of its 200th birthday to right this wrong, and make visible its illustrious history and mind-bogglingly gorgeous collection through 2 new exhibitions--both now on view--and a new nearly 500-page luxurious book. One exhibition--"The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery"--displays rarely viewed specimens and artifacts from the museum stores. "Everything Under the Sun," a second exhibition, features luminous photographs by the amazing Rosamond Purcell of a variety of the incredible artifacts and specimens hidden backstage. The associated book is entitled A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science and features Rosamond Purcell's lavish color photographs.

Above is an excerpt from The New York Times' review of the book and exhibitions; you can read the entire piece and see the photographic sideshow (from which the above images are drawn) by clicking here and here, respectively. You can find out more about the book “A Glorious Enterprise"--and purchase a copy of your very own--by clicking here. You can find out more about the exhibitions by clicking here and here.

Thanks so much to friend and Morbid Anatomy Art Academy Instructor Marie Dauhiemer for sending this along!

Images top to bottom: All by Rosamond Purcell drawn from the New York Times slide show, and presumably featured in the book and exhibition:

1. A spider crab (Libina canaliculata), collected by Joseph Leidy in Atlantic City.
2. Black-backed kingfishers (Ceyx erithancus), collected by the ornithologist Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee in Siam (now Thailand), 1937-38.
3. Cone shells collected for the museum from Tanzania, Dutch New Guinea and the Palau Islands by A.J. Ostheimer III during the 1950s.
4. A selection from the butterfly and moth collection of Titian R. Peale, a noted 19th century entomologist.
5. A Ruby-cheeked Sunbird from Borneo, given to the Academy by Thomas B. Wilson in 1846.

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An Ars story from earlier this month reported that iPhones expose the unique identifiers of recently accessed wireless routers, whichgenerated no shortage of reader outrage. What possible justification does Apple have for building this leakage capability into its entire line of wireless products when smartphones, laptops, and tablets from competitors don't? And how is it that Google, Wigle.net, and others get away with publishing the MAC addresses of millions of wireless access devices and their precise geographic location?

Some readers wanted more technical detail about the exposure, which applies to three access points the devices have most recently connected to. Some went as far as to challenge the validity of security researcher Mark Wuergler's findings. "Until I see the code running or at least a youtube I don't believe this guy has the goods," one Ars commenter wrote.

According to penetration tester Robert Graham, the findings are legit.

In the service of our readers, and to demonstrate to skeptics that the privacy leak is real, Ars approached Graham and asked him to review the article for accuracy and independently confirm or debunk Wuergler's findings.

"I can confirm all the technical details of this 'hack,'" Graham, who is CEO of Errata Security, told Ars via e-mail. "Apple products do indeed send out three packets that will reveal your home router MAC address. I confirmed this with my latest iPad 3."

He provided the image at the top of this post as proof. It shows a screen from Wireshark, a popular packet-sniffing program, as his iPad connected to a public hotspot at a Starbucks in Atlanta. Milliseconds after it connected to an SSID named "attwifi" (as shown in the section labeled #1), the iPad broadcasted the MAC address of his Linksys home router (shown in the section labeled #2). In section #3, the iPad sent the MAC address of this router a second time, and curiously, the identifier was routed to this access point even though it's not available on the local network. As is clear in section #4, the iPad also exposed the local IP address the iPad used when accessing Graham's home router. All of this information is relatively simple to view by anyone within radio range.

The image is consistent with one provided by Wuergler below. Just as Wuergler first claimed, it shows an iPhone disclosing the last three access points it has connected to.

Mark Wuergler, Immunity Inc.

Graham used Wireshark to monitor the same Starbucks hotspot when he connected with his Windows 7 laptop and Android-based Kindle Fire. Neither device exposed any previously connected MAC addresses. He also reviewed hundreds of other non-Apple devices as they connected to the network, and none of them exposed previously accessed addresses, either.

As the data makes clear, the MAC addresses were exposed in ARP (address resolution protocol) packets immediately after Graham's iPad associated with the access point but prior to it receiving an IP address from the router's DHCP server. Both Graham and Wuergler speculate that Apple engineers intentionally built this behavior into their products as a way of speeding up the process of reconnecting to access points, particularly those in corporate environments. Rather than waiting for a DHCP server to issue an IP address, the exposure of the MAC addresses allows the devices to use the same address it was assigned last time.

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Anatomy of a leak: how iPhones spill the ID of networks they access

Things werent looking good. After five days of searching and zero clues, a massive search for a missing man in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park was at a critical juncture.

Lets try to make another hard push for this guy today, Joe Ponds, a supervisory park ranger, told a group of about 60 search-and-rescuers gathered near a makeshift command center last Thursday morning, March 22.

Searchers were upbeat that today would be the day the day they would get a break in the search, that they would find their guy or at the very least, a sign that he was still out there.

Marching orders were clear. Check all natural or manmade shelters. Talk to anyone and everyone they saw. Keep their eyes peeled for any leads such as a reported sighting or a Camel Crush cigarette butt, the brand Derek Lueking smoked.

Following the daily pep talk, nearly three dozen searchers split into 14 teams to begin the sixth day of combing through the densely forested national park where Lueking, 24, of Louisville, Tenn., disappeared that previous Saturday morning.

Hope was still alive that Lueking would be found. The unseasonably warm weather has given him a better chance at survival than typically afforded lost hikers this time of year.

SEE ALSO: Motives of missing man remains a mystery

But, one cannot ignore the fact that by day six, most lost hikers would have already been found. Searchers believed Lueking was ill prepared for an extended trip into the woods, taking nothing more than a daypack with him.

At this point, about 90 percent of missing hiker cases have resolved themselves either the search team finds the person or they emerge from the woods on their own, said Bob Miller, a spokesman for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

There is no set number of days, however, when search crews decide its time to pull the plug. As long as there are leads, the park rangers would keep at it.

More here:
Anatomy of a Smokies search

Courtesy Victorias Secret

White sand beaches, clear oceans, warm sunshine Victorias Secret swim shoots look like a walk in the park, er, on the beach. But in reality, they do take a lot of work, according to swimwear model Candice Swanepoel.

We usually start around 5 a.m., or 5:30 a.m., to be able to catch the sunrise because those are some of the most beautiful moments, the Angel told PEOPLE recently at party to celebrate the brands new swimwear in New York. We take a break in the middle of the day, and then we shoot until the sun goes down.

OK, so we dont feel too badly for Swanepoel, whos shot in gorgeous locations like St. Barts one of my favorite places of all time, she said and Bora Bora. It was far I flew from Paris which was like a world away, but it was paradise, she shared. But really, any beach. Im like, Wheres the next swim shoot?

On the shoots, the models wear very little makeup. The first day we use a lot of bronzer, to get that beautiful tan, but after a while I get naturally tan, she revealed.

And when multiple teams of models, makeup artists and photographers are at a destination (the whole family, as Swanepoel affectionately calls them), the group will shoot all day and enjoy a tropical dinner together at night.

But for all the beautiful places shes posed, theres still one destination Swanepoel is dying to see in a Victorias Secret catalogue: Brazil. The beaches are kind of wild, not the pristine white sand and clear water that looks so good with these bikinis, she explained. But Im obsessed with it the energy they have there, the beach culture its so relaxed. Every moment is exciting people just want to enjoy life and have fun. Sounds like the perfect summer motto.

CELEB TRAINERS REVEAL: HOW STARS STAY SVELTE

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Candice Swanepoel on the Anatomy of a Victoria’s Secret Swimsuit Shoot

The Challenge: Create art for an exhibition to be shown during a visit to the School of Fashion by Jean Paul Gaultier.

The Participants: Fashion Illustration students in FSH 102, 112, 640, 371 and Fashion Merchandising students in FSH 320 Interpreting and Reporting Fashion Students

The Deadline: Mid-March

What goes into creating a mixed media exhibition using large-scale artwork? Create a meaningful activity and fill the task with a collective purpose while giving the project to fashion students and you will find out.

When the semester started, School of Fashion Executive Director Gladys Perint Palmer and Director Simon Ungless gave illustration students an opportunity to shine. Please create large scale mixed media work that will showcase the point of view of a fashion student in the School of Fashion. Work with each other using research about Jean Paul Gualtier from the Interpreting and Reporting Fashion class to help you get inspired. You have six weeks to complete the work and hang the show.

The first step was to form groups and this started the first week of school. Students met each other, collaborated and brainstormed ideas, and began the semester on a high note. What a great way to begin collaborating (a life long pursuit for a fashion student). Fellow students names were soon learned, interesting work began, and the excitement started to build.

Assisted by the students from Hersha Steinbocks FSH 320 class, the illustration classes began to receive research on a weekly basis. This helpful material allowed the creativity to be informed by extensive knowledge of Jean Paul Gaultiers work.

A group of students brainstorming and creating a mock up to present to the class. L-R: Clifford Grant, Rigo Garcia, Thomas Murphy, Isabella Sen, and Brandon Kee work on their presentation.

Following the initial project guidelines, students began working on drawings that would show a larger than life scale of their weekly workshop assignment. Combining curriculum and a special project proved to be no problem for the motivated students.

Follow the jump to read more!

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The Anatomy of an Art Exhibition

Posted: Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 6:58 pm, Fri Mar 23, 2012.

Bayfield Over 300 miles from the never-ending debates in Madison over how to help struggling schools, in a small, largely impoverished district along the edge of Lake Superior, Liz Woodworth ran unopposed for a spot on the Bayfield School Board this spring.

Woodworth isnt just another parent. She and her husband, Jeff Kriner, are both teachers; she in nearby Ashland and he in the same district that Woodworth will help run. Kriner, in fact, has served as everything from a co-president of the local Bayfield Education Association to a teachers union negotiator and spokesman who appears before the School Board.

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Above are some photos from the recent Valentine's Day edition of our most popular and most often sold out of Observatory class, Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class with Susan Jeiven. Sue was recently profiled by the Spanish Television network Telemundo in a piece entitled "Pasatiempos controversial: Disecan animales muertos para decorar;" you can view it in its entirety by clicking here.

For those interested in studying with Sue, in making your own pieces and learning this largely lost Victorian art: I am pleased to announce a few rare vacancies in some upcoming classes; click here to find out more. Click on images to see larger versions; you can also see more photos from past classes by clicking here.

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Danish artist Troels Carlsen is inspired by the human condition, specifically how art has captured human life over the last few centuries.  I love that he uses old anatomical texts and illustrations as a base and inspiration for some of his pieces.  He doesn’t just cut them out and use them as a collage, but rather uses them as his canvas.  I suggest watching the above video on him to truly get a sense of his style.

View more of Troels’ fabulous work on his site, troelscarlsen.com.

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Users can navigate eight layers of brain anatomy, view cross sections and nerve pathways, insert notes, and peruse clinical findings.

The app includes 30,000 neuroanatomy words.

Of all the subjects best taught in 3D, anatomy has got to be up there. And when it comes to human anatomy, the brain is arguably the most complex organ, if not system, of them all.

So it's fitting that 3-year-old medical education app publisher eMedia out of Ireland is adding the Pocket Brain app to its suite of 3D Pocket Anatomy offerings. (First came the body and the heart.) For $19.99, the interactive app for iPhone and iPad renders the old-fashioned textbook pretty close to obsolete.

A few particularly inspired features: the 3D rotating brain includes nine layers to explore; relevant clinical cases; easy note insertion; various quizzes; and more. And because all content lives in the app itself, no Wi-Fi or 3G is required.

Clearly designed with medical and nursing students in mind, Pocket Brain may also serve as the ideal "I'd like to kill some time" tool for those of us who get our thrills memorizing things we're only ever really tested on during trivia night.

The app's developers enjoy a sense of humor, too. Check out their teaser below, aptly choreographed to "If I Only Had a Brain."

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Pocket Brain app offers searchable 3D atlas of the brain

This very exciting call for papers just in from Morbid Anatomy reader Arlene Leis:

AAH Summer Symposium 2012
Art and Science: Knowledge, Creation and Discovery
28 – 29 June 2012
The Linnean Society, London

Call for Papers
Although their academic paradigms may at first seem diametrically opposed, the association between arts and sciences has survived renaissances, revolutions and beyond.

This intellectual conjunction has motivated artistic practice and production throughout history, forming the conceptual nucleus of some of the most stimulating forms of creative expression. By engaging with this inter-relationship, we hope to address the assumed divisions that have kept the arts and sciences as separate areas of academic enquiry, whilst at the same time questioning if such an alliance is necessary or profitable for either discipline.

As well as considering general ideas of artistic and scientific collaboration, this year’s Summer Symposium will investigate the interaction between art and science throughout artistic practice, theory and history. Topics for papers could include, but are not limited to:

• Artists who work directly or indirectly with science
• Medical and anatomical images, diagrams, and the art of science
• Architecture and the body
• Histories of collection, taxonomies, display and acquisition in the arts and sciences
• The role of the science of perception in the development of perspective, figuration and abstraction
• The idea of the modern as related to science and technology
• The figure of the polymath
• Neuroscience and histories of vision
• Photography between science and art
• Mathematics and beauty – the Golden Section
• Technology and the evolving dissemination of art history
• Science in art historical conservation and research

Papers should be 20 minutes in length and abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted with a brief biography to: aah.art.science@gmail.com by 29 April 2012.

The conference is open to all, but speakers need to be student AAH members.

Symposium Organisers
Arlene Leis, University of York
Rebecca Norris, University of Cambridge
Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh

Keynote speakers
Dr Craig Ashley Hanson, (Calvin College)
Dr Petra Lange-Berndt, (UCL)

To find out more, click here.

Image from call for papers PDF; Rebecca Nichols, Arbor Vitae (2007), more here.

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I am very excited to draw your attention this year's annual Coney Island USA Spring Gala, fast approaching and taking place this Saturday, March 24th! Last year's iteration was amazing; these folks really really know how to put on a party. The $100 ticket gets you not only an evening of performance, music, burlesque and spectacle, but also free booze from 7-11, hors d'oeuvres and exclusive access to the VIP balcony where you and hide from the throngs if so desired; you are also supporting the wonderful cause that is Coney Island USA.

I will definitely be there; hope to see you there, too! Also, please note: as a special incentive, if you type "Morbid Anatomy" in the notes field on the ticket site, you will recieve a free Morbid Anatomy totebag from your friends here at the blog!

Full info follows; hope very very much to see you there!

CONEY ISLAND USA SPRING GALA 2012: CELEBRATING THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MERMAID PARADE!

SATURDAY, MARCH 24TH
7PM - 11PM
WEBSTER HALL
125 EAST 11 ST (BETWEEN 3RD AND 4TH AVE.)
NEW YORK, NY 10003

Join Coney Island USA as we invade Manhattan at New York’s oldest nightclub, Webster Hall, and celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Mermaid Parade at our annual Spring Gala. All proceeds of the Spring Gala go directly towards funding Coney Island USA's innovative arts programming such as The Coney Island Circus Sideshow, The Mermaid Parade, The Coney Island Museum, Burlesque at the Beach and the Coney Island Film Festival to name just a few. Coney Island USA also fights to preserve and revitalize Coney Island’s historic amusement district.

This year’s gala event will feature a dazzling display of daring feats executed by the cast of Sideshows by the Seashore, some of New York’s most talented and titillating burlesque performers, a glorious gamut of go go gals and guys, as well as special musical guests for your auditory pleasure. And be on the lookout for all kinds of surprises!

Scheduled to perform:
From the cast of The Coney Island Circus Sideshow: Insectavora, Kryssy Kocktail, Princess Pat, Serpentina, Scott Baker
Fire Dancing by: Sasha Fire Gypsy

Burlesque By: Miss Coney Island 2012 - BB Heart, Bambi the Mermaid, Bunny Love, *World Famous Bob*, The Go Go Stylings of: Amelia Bareparts, Apathy Angel, Dottie Dynamo, Evelyn Vinyl, Go Go Harder, Jezebel Express, Justina Flash, LaMaia, Magdalena Fox, Raven Twin, Rosey La Rouge, Sara Hassan, Sizzle Dizzle
Mermaid: Angela
Magic by: Cardone
Juggling by: Kyle Petersen
Musical Guest: Alison Gordy
Accordion: Matt Dallow
Multi Talents: Kyle Petersen, Jonathan Burns, Mark Hayward
Strongman: Chris Schoeck
Lasers By: S&M Visuals
Performance DJ: Ron-Fresh Prince of Darkness
Ambient DJ: Lemar Soulflower
Live Body Painting by: Dr. Flux
The Voice of The Mermaid Parade: Chris T.
Hosted by: Adam The First Real Man & *World Famous Bob*
Stage Sidekick: Brian Fisherman
With VIP Host and Hostesses: Creamy Stevens, Kat Mon Dieu, Marni Halasa, Tigger, Noah D’Klein, Little Brooklyn, Alfie Bunz,
Kita St. Cyr, Hazel Honeysuckle, Beelezebabe, Ginger Brown, Bambi The Mermaid, Bunny Love, Cherry Delight, Glenn Marla
Crew: Tony, LaMaia (Kitten), Pat Bresnan, Ron Garcia-Vidal

Also expect Special Guests from over 30 Years of Mermaid Parades, including former Royalty - Joe Franklin, Phoebe Legere, Alison Gordy, Fred Kahl, *World Famous Bob*, Kiva, Ron Kuby, Reverend Billy, Savitri D.

Auction Items at the gala include:
Two seats on the reviewing stand with the King and Queen for 30th Anniversary Mermaid Parade
Darren Aronofsky signed copy of his 'Noah' graphic novel
Tickets to Monster Jam
Fire Breathing Lessons
Golf foursome
Dinner for four at Gossip Bar
Christmas Day visit from Santa
WWOW Radio: pair of tickets for any performance April – June
Set of Shocked and Amazed from James Taylor and Full Congress Pass
One Hour Burlesque lesson from World Famous *Bob*
Full behind the scenes tour of the New York Aquarium
Full Film Festival Pass with collection of Film Fest posters
Freak Bar Party - - - (10 tickets to the Freaks Show and a dedicated
area at the Freak Bar) *date restrictions apply
Marie Roberts Mermaid Banner
Plus more to be announced!

AND (IF THAT ISN’T ENOUGH!) ALL OF OUR GUESTS WILL BE INVITED TO STAY AT WEBSTER HALL FOR A VERY SPECIAL CIRCUS AFTER-PARTY BEGINNING AT 11PM!

Check out photos from prior galas here.

TICKETS:
ALL advance online ticket buyers will be entered into a drawing for TWO seats on the judges stand for this years 30th Anniversary Mermaid Parade on June 23rd (a $300 dollar value), to be given away at the Spring Gala. So get your tickets online now, and you could be our lucky winner. Advance online sale ends Friday, March 23rd at 11pm.

Spring Gala V.I.P.Ticket, $250 (includes open bar from 7-11pm, signature cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, exclusive seating with our V.I.P.’s and Gift Bags),
Click here to order.

Spring Gala Supporter, $100 (includes special signature cocktails, beer and wine from 7-11, hors d'oeuvres and exclusive access to the VIP balcony where you can interact with past Royalty, Celebrities and Coney Island USA’s core supporters), Click here to order.

General Admission (Entry Only) Tickets, $60, Click here to order.

Advance sale ends Friday, March 23rd at 11pm. Tickets may be purchased at Webster Hall night of the gala (March 24th).

Please Note: There are no restrooms on the main level and no elevator access to the restrooms, however, venue staff is prepared to carry any wheelchairs or assist in getting patrons into the venue and to the restrooms, if necesssary. You must let us know if you have special needs.

How else can I help support Coney Island USA?

Join the Host Committee! Co-Chaired by Darren Aronofsky!
Joining the Host Committee is a great way to get involved and help make this amazing event happen. Host Committee members sell or purchase 5 Gala Supporter Tickets or 3 V.I.P. Tickets and receive a free admission for themselves so they can host their friends in return! Committee members are invited to a private dinner in recognition of their support and will have their names printed in the Gala Journal that will go to all of our guests.

For further Host Committee info, contact Tim Pendrell
e-mail: tim@coneyisland.com phone: 718-372-5159

You can buy your tickets by clicking here.

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More from Italy, as I sort through my thousands of photographs: I don't know much about the top piece, but I am guessing it is a 18th or early 19th century Madonna Dolorosa, Mater Dolorosa, or Lady of Sorrows, a popular motif in Naples; we spotted it at one of the many antiques shops we popped into on our trip. The bottom image is my own Madonna Dolorosa, made by the workshop of Giuseppe and Marco Ferrigno, a studio which continues to create--by hand!--fine Baroque-style crèches and terracotta figures of the sort for which Naples is still, rightrully, renowned.

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This wonderful looking event just in from friend, former Observatory lecturer, and author of the lovely Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century Carl Schoonover; hope very much to see you there!

Does the brain’s wiring make us who we are?
Two leading neuroscientists debate maps, minds and the future of their field.
Date: Monday, April 2, 2012
Time: 6:30 pm, cocktails. 7 pm, program.
Location: Havemeyer Hall 309, Columbia University, Broadway @ 116th St

Sebastian Seung (MIT)
Professor of Computational Neuroscience, MIT; Author of Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

vs. Anthony Movshon (NYU)
Professor and Director, Center for Neural Science, NYU

Moderators: Robert Krulwich of NPR’s Radiolab and Carl Zimmer, science journalist (NYTimes, Discover, NPR)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC

What will be the next big breakthrough in neuroscience? What will finally explain how brains work, how they fail in disease, and what makes us each unique? Some neuroscientists believe that research would be radically accelerated by finding and deciphering “connectomes,” maps of connections between neurons. Funding agencies are wagering millions of dollars on the idea that connectomics will be as fundamental to neuroscience as genomics is to molecular biology.

But others disagree, arguing that maps of the brain by themselves cannot offer much insight into how this remarkable organ does its job. Just as a genome by itself is only a blueprint with little power to explain how an organism works, a connectome is at best a framework with little power to explain brain function. Should neuroscience make it a priority to launch a significant connectomics program, diverting human and financial resources from other worthy goals?

Join us as leading “connectomist” Dr. Sebastian Seung defends his position in public against the formidable neurophysiologist Dr. Anthony Movshon. Award-winning science writer Carl Zimmer teams up with co-creator of NPR's Radiolab, Robert Krulwich, to moderate this debate on neural cartography, guiding the audience through both known and unknown territory as we ask the question: Are brain maps the future of neuroscience or an empty promise?

Seating is limited. Tickets can be reserved beginning March 12 at Noon.

Questions: neuwrite@gmail.com

NeuWrite is a collaborative working group for scientists and writers.

Image credit: A. Zlateski based on images of K. Briggman, M. Helmstaedter, and W. Denk.

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