“You may not be a vampire, phlebotomist or hematologist, or even know what all those words mean, but you can still learn about blood!” – and this excellent (and huge) infographic does just that, teach you a LOT about blood. As a regular donor I thought I knew my stuff but there are some pretty [...]

After looking at this image for a while we started to wonder…. is that fat in the brain?? There are clearly some differences going on up there that aren’t fully explained. If you know, shed some light in the comments! via

It’s been a real week of potato based revelations for us in the Golembunker, all spurred on by a mysterious green fruit that has grown out of one of the old and sprouting baking potatoes we chucked into a bucket in the garden at the beginning of the year. Up until 2 weeks ago I [...]

” Patient TN was, by his own account, completely blind. Two consecutive strokes had destroyed the visual cortex of his brain, and consequently, his ability to see. His first stroke had injured only one hemisphere of his visual cortex. About five weeks later, a second stroke damaged the other hemisphere. An assessment of his brain [...]