loscheiner:

Very neat: moving x-ray images of speech.  If i knew how to make a .gif work on tumblr, you could see it in action.  Since I can’t, click through to see the original.
Things to notice:
-Underneath the jaw there’s a bone.  It looks like it’s floating because it kind of is.  That’s your hyoid bone.  Your tongue and your larynx (“voice box”) are attached to the hyoid.  But no other bones attach to it.  And since muscles and cartilages don’t show up on this CT, the hyoid is just kind of hanging out by itself.
-Behind the hyoid bone, to the left you can see the cervical vertebrae.
-Between the vertebrae and the hyoid there’s some lighter space.  That’s the opening to the larynx.  Above the white space is a thin, sticky-outy- thing  It looks vaguely phallic from this angle.  That’s your epiglottis.  It’s job is to cover the opening to your larynx, which is right in front of your esophagus- when you swallow.  If food or water gets into your larynx, it can go straight down your trachea into your lungs, causing you to choke- or if the stuff causes an infection, you can get pneumonia.  So you want your epiglottis to work.
(image via hundertmarkblog.de; anatomy lesson via years and years and thousands of dollars of grad classes in speech-language pathology)

This is great. Also, the tongue reminds me of a diplodocus.

loscheiner:

Very neat: moving x-ray images of speech.  If i knew how to make a .gif work on tumblr, you could see it in action.  Since I can’t, click through to see the original.

Things to notice:

-Underneath the jaw there’s a bone.  It looks like it’s floating because it kind of is.  That’s your hyoid bone.  Your tongue and your larynx (“voice box”) are attached to the hyoid.  But no other bones attach to it.  And since muscles and cartilages don’t show up on this CT, the hyoid is just kind of hanging out by itself.

-Behind the hyoid bone, to the left you can see the cervical vertebrae.

-Between the vertebrae and the hyoid there’s some lighter space.  That’s the opening to the larynx.  Above the white space is a thin, sticky-outy- thing  It looks vaguely phallic from this angle.  That’s your epiglottis.  It’s job is to cover the opening to your larynx, which is right in front of your esophagus- when you swallow.  If food or water gets into your larynx, it can go straight down your trachea into your lungs, causing you to choke- or if the stuff causes an infection, you can get pneumonia.  So you want your epiglottis to work.

(image via hundertmarkblog.de; anatomy lesson via years and years and thousands of dollars of grad classes in speech-language pathology)

This is great. Also, the tongue reminds me of a diplodocus.

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jhnbrssndn:

tristn:

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livejamie:

This website transforms your name into something epic. I am “Captain Jamiehawk: The Arch-friend”

Empress Victoria Johnsongon, The Skyforger: Human Asteroid From Beyond the Dogstar Cluster.  How did they know?!

(Also: “A total eclipse of the heart is being performed to deliver your name”)

Emperor Tristan Mahrhawk, The Astral Body, The Gloveless Spine Extractor

Meh.  Mine’s just John Brissendenlax The Barbarian, Heir to the Rune-Hammer of the Apocalypse.  That’s what the wife calls me anyway.

Well, gosh.

Doctor (good omen?!?!) Teresa Yangulon
The Mastodonic
Herald of Zenith, Ninth Wonder of Neptune

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“So, it’s definitely a hardware issue.”

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I’ve been spreading information to you dudes for months now about awesome food. I’ve been telling you about it in bars, and on gmail chats, and I’ve been scribbling notes about it on napkins, because you keep forgetting the word MAITAKE. And now, I’m gonna make it all in one place, have it be easily accessable, have it be totally EASY for you dudes to get better. Sounds good, right? I’ll do my best to make the information as accurate as possible, feel free to let me know if I’m missing something. I’m not a doctor, especially not your doctor, so if you have some weirdo issues, or allergies, or whatever, maybe talk to your doctor and not just listen to some shit I write on the internet.

This is great. I’m a fan of any healthy food blog which quotes scientific studies (never mind the fact that seeing an effect in vitro doesn’t necessarily mean you’d see the same thing in vivo) and does not use the words “cleanse” and “detox”.

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I had no idea.

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"Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God. And some aliens could even be free from original sin, he speculates."
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intimationsofimmortality:livfm:sarahptor



look at those tits.



I see your tits, and raise you some boobies.

intimationsofimmortality:livfm:sarahptor

look at those tits.

I see your tits, and raise you some boobies.

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Sometimes I feel so very small.

Sometimes I feel so very small.

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I want to start a Finer Things Club simply so I have an excuse to eat awesome cheese on a regular basis.

But for now, I’m happy to just going to lie here in bed watching The Office on DVD and gorge myself. Alone.

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My mum picks flowers from the garden and randomly puts them in drinking vessels all around the place sometimesI found this one sitting on the table outside

My mum picks flowers from the garden and randomly puts them in drinking vessels all around the place sometimes

I found this one sitting on the table outside

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Taken with an original SX-70 Alpha with SX-70 film

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Taken with an original SX-70 Alpha with SX-70 film

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intimationsofimmortality:

Questionable at best plotlines? Dodgy dialogue? Yes.
So adorable that none of this matters? Yes.
Go see this movie. It is great. I enjoyed watching it a lot, though that enjoyment was not all attributable to the movie.
Plus it features the voices of Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett, Tina Fey, Matt Damon, BETTY WHITE, and <ahem> Noah Cyrus and Frankie Jonas.

Please, please see this with the original Japanese voicing if you can. In fact, that goes for all the Miyazaki movies. There’s just something about the rhythm of the language. I grew up watching them (with Chinese subtitles), and recently got hold of copies of them dubbed in English, and it’s just not the same.

intimationsofimmortality:

Questionable at best plotlines? Dodgy dialogue? Yes.

So adorable that none of this matters? Yes.

Go see this movie. It is great. I enjoyed watching it a lot, though that enjoyment was not all attributable to the movie.

Plus it features the voices of Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett, Tina Fey, Matt Damon, BETTY WHITE, and <ahem> Noah Cyrus and Frankie Jonas.

Please, please see this with the original Japanese voicing if you can. In fact, that goes for all the Miyazaki movies. There’s just something about the rhythm of the language. I grew up watching them (with Chinese subtitles), and recently got hold of copies of them dubbed in English, and it’s just not the same.

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