#walnut study

[chloehallillustration]

Wood Exterior Large beach style gray three-story wood flat roof photo

[greekamazon]

New York Transitional Kitchen Large transitional l-shaped light wood floor in the eat-in kitchen. recessed-panel cabinets, white cabinets, an island, an undermount sink, limestone countertops, a gray backsplash, a mosaic tile backsplash, and stainless steel appliances are some features of an eat-in kitchen design.

[richtigezahnpflege]

Family Room Enclosed in New York Family room - huge transitional enclosed light wood floor family room idea with gray walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

[tea-tuesday]

11/04/2023

had a productive group project session w a friend today, we finished our joint memo and powerpoint !! afterwards, i went to a used bookstore to find books for my legal literature class next sem✨📚

[the-home]

[gottagobuycheese]

well, as the saying goes, out of the frying pan into the autoclave

[raziraphale]

do you ever have an old petty annoyance suddenly rise from the dead to haunt you again. anyway just remembered when I did a presentation on victorian attitudes on gender and sexuality and my brit lit prof when grading me criticized me for using the term sexologist to describe someone and called it "anachronistic". when our textbook used that word to describe the exact same historical figure. a historical figure that presumably also used that word because they studied sexology. and the prof was the one that divvied up the textbook sections and assigned topics for this presentation. brad it's been over five years now but when I fucking GET you

[realitybitescupcakes]

Phoenix Home Office Study room - mid-sized contemporary porcelain tile and beige floor study room idea with white walls

[jamiecolby]

Freestanding in Los Angeles Large transitional freestanding desk carpeted and blue floor home office library photo with beige walls, a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

[killstiles]

Home Office London

Image of a small, eclectic study room with a dark wood floor and gray walls

[theloverstomb]

‘Fragile Microbiomes’ by bio-artist Anna Dumitriu

1. SYPHILIS DRESS- This dress is embroidered with images of the corkscrew-shaped bacterium which causes the sexually transmitted disease syphilis. These embroideries are impregnated with the sterilised DNA of the Nichols strain of the bacterium - Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum - which Dumitriu extracted with her collaborators.

2. MICROBE MOUTH- The tooth at the centre of this necklace was grown in the lab using an extremophile bacterium which is part of the species called Serratia (Serratia N14) that can produce hydroxyapatite, the same substance that tooth enamel is made from.

The handmade porcelain teeth that make up this necklace have been coated with glazes derived from various bacterial species that live in our mouths and cause tooth decay and gum disease, including Porphyromonas gingivalis, which can introduce an iron-containing light brown stain to the glaze.

3. TEETH MARKS: THE MOST PROFOUND MYSTERY- In his 1845 essay “On Artificial Teeth”, W.H. Mortimer described false teeth as “the most profound mystery” because they were never discussed. Instead, people would hide the stigma of bad teeth and foul breath using fans.

This altered antique fan is made from animal bone and has been mended with gold wire, both materials historically used to construct false teeth (which would also sometimes incorporate human teeth). The silk of the fan and ribbon has been grown and patterned with two species of oral pathogens: Prevotella intermedia and Porphyromonas gingivalis. These bacteria cause gum disease and bad breath, and the latter has also recently been linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

4. PLAGUE DRESS- This 1665-style 'Plague Dress' is made from raw silk, hand-dyed with walnut husks in reference to the famous herbalist of the era Nicholas Culpeper, who recommended walnuts as a treatment for plague. It has been appliquéd with original 17th-century embroideries, impregnated with the DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria (plague). The artist extracted this from killed bacteria in the laboratory of the National Collection of Type Cultures at the UK Health Security Agency.

The dress is stuffed and surrounded by lavender, which people carried during the Great Plague of London to cover the stench of infection and to prevent the disease, which was believed to be caused by 'bad air' or 'miasmas'. The silk of the dress references the Silk Road, a key vector for the spread of plague.

5. BACTERIAL BAPTISM- based on a vintage christening gown which has been altered by the artist to tell the story of research into how the microbiomes of babies develop, with a focus on the bacterium Clostridioides difficile, originally discovered by Hall and O’Toole in 1935 and presented in their paper “Intestinal flora in new-born infants”. It was named Bacillus difficilis because it was difficult to grow, and in the 1970s it was recognised as causing conditions from mild antibiotic-associated diarrhoea to life-threatening intestinal inflammation. The embroidery silk is dyed using stains used in the study of the gut microbiome and the gown is decorated with hand-crocheted linen lace grown in lab with (sterilised) C. difficile biofilms. The piece also considers how new-borns become colonised by bacteria during birth in what has been described as ‘bacterial baptism’.

6. ZENEXTON- Around 1570, Swiss physician and alchemist Theophrastus Paracelsus coined the term ‘Zenexton’, meaning an amulet worn around the neck to protect from the plague. Until then, amulets had a more general purpose of warding off (unspecified) disease, rather like the difference today between ‘broad spectrum’ antibiotics and antibiotics informed by genomics approaches which target a specific organism.

Over the next century, several ideas were put forward as to what this amulet might contain: a paste made of powdered toads, sapphires that would turn black when they leeched the pestilence from the body, or menstrual blood. Bizarre improvements were later made: “of course, the toad should be finely powdered”; “the menstrual blood from a virgin”; “collected on a full moon”.

This very modern Zenexton has been 3D printed and offers the wearer something that genuinely protects: the recently developed vaccine against Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague.

[bubzywubzy]

Los Angeles Study Home Office Example of a mid-sized arts and crafts built-in desk carpeted and beige floor study room design with beige walls and no fireplace

[sadatmirza]

Brick Exterior An illustration of a medium-sized, traditional, three-story brick exterior house with a shingle roof

[itscolossal]

Flat-Lays of Halved Walnuts and Other Shells Study the Diversity of the Botanical Fruits

[daisy-source]

Phoenix Home Office Study room - mid-sized contemporary porcelain tile and beige floor study room idea with white walls

[missxdelaneyart]

Built-In - Eclectic Home Office