#we had dissection in anatomy today

[sushistyless]

my eyes are literally shutting but I have four fucking chapters to complete for a test tomorrow

[saintsenara]

What are your thoughts on mediwitches and medical care in the Wizarding World?

thank you very much for the asks, @thesilverstarling and @yorickofyore, which i have handily combined into one for the chance to talk about a worldbuilding question i am legitimately obsessed with:

what the hell is going on with wizarding medicine? part one: the structure of the healthcare system

as i've said here, something which is really interesting when thinking about the wizarding healthcare system is that the signing of the statute of secrecy - the event which causes the total separation of the magical and muggle worlds - in 1689 takes place before a period of considerable advancement in western medicine.

i really like the fact that the canonical worldbuilding around potions suggests that many disciplines of wizarding science are more closely rooted in the medieval and early-modern history of science than their muggle equivalents. i also like the fact that the natural end point of the archaic muggle technology which is used in the series to make the wizarding world seem whimsical by virtue of it being old-fashioned [steam trains etc.] is to assume that wizards live in a world where cutting-edge medical technology is unheard of...

and, therefore, to think of wizarding medicine as a discipline which is meaningfully distinct from its muggle cousin.

and which isn't necessarily more advanced...

the historical context

a muggle physician working in what is now the united kingdom when the statute of secrecy was signed lacked much of what we would take to be basic medical knowledge today, even if he'd studied medicine at a university. he wouldn't know what germs were, for example, and he might still believe that the body was governed by four humours [a theory which was starting to be questioned at the time]. he would never have seen a stethoscope [not invented until 1816]. he would consider the microscope [first used in a scientific context in 1666] bizarre, new-fangled technology - and he is unlikely, especially if he worked outside of london, oxford, or cambridge, to have ever seen one.

he would have had less opportunity to learn about human anatomy, no matter the form his training took, than medical students today. dissections were fairly uncommon, for religious reasons, and surgery didn't really exist as a field... not least because anaesthesia wasn't available until the middle of the nineteenth century.

this is not to say, however, that his anatomical knowledge would have been wrong.

he would probably have relied for his understanding of the inner working of the body on a text called de humani corporis fabrica [on the fabric of the human body], published in the 1540s by the belgian surgeon andreas vesalius. this text - a detailed study of the human body [which supplanted the handbooks in use prior to the sixteenth century - those of the roman physician, galen] - was possible because vesalius managed to obtain a steady supply of executed criminals to dissect. it's a fascinating text - not least because it's still pretty accurate.

as a result, our physician would be aware of many of the major medical discoveries of the later 1500s and 1600s - such as the structure of the musculoskeletal system, the fact that blood circulates in the body, and the fact that the human lungs require the inhalation of air to function.

unless the need for a surgical treatment [such as the extraction of a tooth or the amputation of a limb] was obvious, most of the treatments he would prescribe would be herbal - and his dispensary would include not only plants from all over eurasia, but also from european colonies in the americas.

he might, for example, be found prescribing chocolate... which would make madam pomfrey happy:

“Well, he should have some chocolate, at the very least,” said Madam Pomfrey, who was now trying to peer into Harry’s eyes. “I’ve already had some,” said Harry. “Professor Lupin gave me some. He gave it to all of us.”  “Did he, now?” said Madam Pomfrey approvingly. “So we’ve finally got a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who knows his remedies?”

it's important to note that many of these traditional herbal remedies genuinely work. plenty of modern medicines are developed from them [the most widely known, i imagine, being aspirin], and anyone taking a herbal remedy should be aware that they need to check how this remedy interacts with any other medication or supplements they take [especially - i beg - if the herbal remedy in question is st john's wort...]

but it's also true that our early-modern physician would spend a lot of time prescribing various odd pastes, poultices, potions, and powders, made from ingredients such as stones, spiders' webs, animal blood, and human body parts.

[he might even have recommended some of his patients swallow a bezoar - even if the efficacy of these as a cure for poisoning was starting to be doubted in the seventeenth century...]

and his go-to treatment would - of course - be bloodletting, to remove "bad blood", the cause of myriad ills, from the body.

jkr is - obviously - extremely fond of using these medieval and early-modern remedies as part of the worldbuilding around magical medicine. she's also fond of extending the obsolete technology which is used to make the wizarding world feel whimsical into the realm of the body - wizards wear monocles and use ear trumpets, both of which are assistive devices, because they make the setting feel more magical to a reader in 1997 [and beyond] than glasses and hearing aids.

but there is - if one wants there to be - a sinister undercurrent to the idea that all aspects of wizarding healthcare retain a pre-modern flavour.

wizards do canonically have attitudes towards the body, illness, and disability which, when interrogated, don't seem to have moved on much from the 1680s... which is why this answer is definitely going to end up having a part two, on wizarding attitudes to the body.

for now, though, let's look at how the healthcare system is structured.

the structure of the wizarding healthcare system

the two medical institutions we see in canon - st mungo's and the hogwarts hospital wing - are whimsical pastiches of aspects of the british healthcare system: st mungo's is an nhs hospital [hence the reason it seems to be free - although i think it's interesting for authors to imagine that it isn't...] and the hospital wing is a boarding school infirmary.

st mungo's is immediately familiar to anyone who has worked in a hospital - especially characters like this patient from order of the phoenix:

“And that woman over there,” he indicated the only other occupied bed, which was right beside the door, “won’t tell the Healers what bit her, which makes us all think it must have been something she was handling illegally. Whatever it was took a real chunk out of her leg, very nasty smell when they take off the dressings.”

but the structure of the modern hospital - its departments, its staff - is a post-1689 invention, as are the non-hospital spaces [gp's surgeries, dentist's and optometrist's offices, pharmacies] in which healthcare takes place.

and so how might the places in which healing occurs differ from their muggle equivalents?

st mungo's hospital for magical maladies and injuries

like any hospital, st mungo's offers a combination of emergency and specialist treatment. it doesn't seem to offer general healthcare - such as check-ups - and it doesn't seem to offer treatment for minor-to-moderate ailments.

this makes sense given its real-world influences - in the uk, most aspects of most people's everyday healthcare are the purview of a general practitioner, and specialists tend not to be seen outside of specific, often more serious contexts.

[for example, i'm a woman in my thirties who has never had an appointment with a gynaecologist - something which shocks american friends. this is because everything to do with reproductive healthcare that i've had to do in my life so far - such as cervical screening - has been done by my gp's surgery.]

st mungo's also doesn't seem to perform general dental or optometrical services. this is also the case in the uk.

we know from canon that it has wards which treat long-term residents - such as the longbottoms. in muggle britain, this wouldn't exactly be the case - nhs trusts manage certain types of residential treatment [such as psychiatric hospitals, or brain-injury rehabilitation centres], which tend to be on separate sites to hospital buildings, but long-term care homes and assisted-living facilities are managed by private companies or local councils. the wizarding population is evidently too small to have any form of local government, so this becoming the purview of the healthcare system makes sense.

what is more interesting, though, is that st mungo's doesn't seem to treat anything which doesn't have a specifically magical cause...

community care

we see in canon that wizards prefer to treat even fairly serious magical conditions in the home [with the hogwarts hospital wing as the pseudo-domestic stand-in] - in the form of ron's fake spattergroit in deathly hallows.

we can also assume, then, that things like birth and death [as well as the treatment of non-magical conditions] also generally take place in the home - and that this is why st mungo's doesn't seem to offer any sort of obstetric care.

and this will have an impact on how wizards understand things like birth, death, and aging which - while not divergent from the muggle understanding of these things historically - would be massively at odds with the muggle attitude contemporarily. only around 2% of births in the uk take place at home, for example - and since around 43% of deaths take place in a hospital and 20% take place in a care home, it is now a minority experience to die in your own home. multi-generational living is extremely uncommon for british muggles outside of specific demographic groups. it would presumably not be - since gerontological care must take place in the home - for british wizards.

[i am aware of the wizarding care home in the cursed child, but i think we can either ignore this as not-canon, or imagine it working as an almshouse - such as the royal hospital, chelsea, founded in 1682 - the early-modern equivalent of a care home]

similarly, the treatment of chronic illnesses must generally take place in the home - which offers a really interesting insight into why, for example, remus lupin appears so much less healthy than werewolves like fenrir greyback, who live in quasi-familial community groups.

so too must the care of the terminally ill - which means that wizards would retain a relationship with death that muggles are increasingly detached from. i was struck when talking about deathly hallows with some friends that they were surprised that fleur delacour can see thestrals - and they automatically assumed that she must have witnessed some sort of traumatic death for this to be the case. but if her grandmother [who seems, as of goblet of fire, to be dead] went through the process of dying [which is not immediate!] at home, she would probably have been there to witness and understand it. this is an entirely natural part of the human experience.

and this means - as we'll come to in part two - that who doesn't get treated in the home becomes an interesting question...

healers and their training

the stringent academic requirements for healing training in canon are a pastiche of those needed for a medical degree in muggle britain. medicine is an extremely competitive subject [as in many places worldwide, the number of places is capped] and all uk medical schools require top a-level [the final-year exams which newts are a mirror of] grades.

in the wizarding world - since university education doesn't appear to exist - the subject is taught by apprenticeship. this makes sense - all muggle medical degrees have a considerable practical component, and i think we can easily imagine that trainee healers are also required to attend lectures etc.

however, since there doesn't appear to be general medicine in the wizarding world, healers seem to apprentice from the off in specific specialities.

similarly, on their wards, they seem to function as a combination of all the levels of staff you would find in a muggle hospital - a doctor would not, for example, hand out christmas gifts on a ward - and there doesn't seem to be any hierarchy post-qualification. you can only be an apprentice or a healer - instead of a junior, registrar, consultant etc. [or the american near-equivalents - intern, resident, attending etc.]

but all of this makes sense if we consider it alongside the fact that a lot of treatment must take place in the home. healers are - by their very nature - advanced specialists in a specific [and apparently narrow] range of magical illnesses and injuries, who presumably deal with such a small number of patients [arthur weasley is on a ward with only three people, supervised by two healers - i think many of us who've worked in muggle hospitals would kill for that ratio...] that they are able to take the holistic role they do in canon.

other medical staff

and so most aspects of wizarding medicine must be administered by people who are not [by virtue of formal training] healers - both within the home and outside it.

madam pomfrey, for example, seems to have a different, lower level of training than a healer - not least because her title, which she shares with other non-academic staff like madam hooch, is intended to indicate that she is below the hogwarts professors in terms of qualification [however wizards understand this when it comes to fitness to teach]. we see in canon that she needs to send patients to st mungo's for specific magical injuries which she doesn't have the training and/or equipment to treat [mcgonagall after she's stunned in order of the phoenix, katie bell after she's cursed in half-blood prince], but that she's able to treat most magical injuries which are non-life-threatening, and most non-magical injuries and minor illnesses.

in the uk, a school matron would generally be qualified as a nurse - and madam pomfrey reflects this. obviously, this is primarily a narrative detail which helps the [british] reader understand the wizarding world by referencing something with which they are familiar, but from an in-world perspective it suggests that there is a hierarchy of medical training which we don't hear about in canon.

perhaps even because it would be considered beneath the alumni of as elite a boarding school as hogwarts to go into the equivalent of nursing...

[indeed, the apparent absence of credentialism in the presentation of healing being revealed to be a lie would fit the way the series approaches class... and the class distinctions, not only in terms of post-qualification social status, but in terms of background - in 2016, 61% of people studying medicine or dentistry were privately educated - between doctors and nurses in the uk are significant.]

and so i imagine that general medical treatment - as well as more specialised disciplines like midwifery, dentistry, and optometry - is available in the wizarding world [for a fee?] from licensed [anyone offering medical care in england has required a license since the 1520s] community-based practitioners such as madam pomfrey, with people only seeking treatment at st mungo's for urgent magical cases.

there must also be a voluntary aspect to this community-based medical system - i've always assumed that the people who bring arthur weasley to st mungo's are volunteers rather than professional paramedics, for example - and treatment must also be available from shops - such as apothecaries, which can presumably diagnose ailments as well as sell the treatments for them - which provide medical services alongside various other functions.

[maybe the people who make objects such as james and sirius' two-way mirrors are also responsible for lens-crafting and other aspects of optometry.]

this can be a fun worldbuilding detail - historically, surgery [and most dental care] was provided by barbers. clearly, molly doesn't cut her sons' hair at home for financial reasons, but because the one time she let bill go to the barber's on his own, he came back with a gold tooth...

the medical research sector

while the wizarding world doesn't appear to have universities - or other research institutions which look familiar to the modern reader - it clearly has some sort of scientific infrastructure, within which medical and pharmaceutical research [such as the development of the wolfsbane potion in the early 1990s] takes place.

and we can very easily imagine what this infrastructure is...

the statute of secrecy is signed after the emergence in britain of learned societies - essentially, research organisations, which are modelled on the college fellowships of oxford and cambridge [with a little bit of the medieval guild thrown in]. they function as academic networks, peer-review groups, and professional bodies.

in the medical field, the royal college of physicians - which is still going! i'm a member! - was founded in 1519. in the natural sciences more generally, the royal society - probably the most famous learned society in the world - was officially established in 1663.

we know of at least one wizarding learned society from canon - the most extraordinary society of potioneers, founded by hector dagworth-granger - and we know that there are academic journals - such as transfiguration today - which can be presumed to be published by others.

it makes absolute sense that there would be a learned society which focused on the science of healing, and offered publications, lectures, demonstrations [imagine how horrendous the first demonstration of the wolfsbane potion might have been...], research funding, and so on to professionals working in the discipline. it also makes sense that there would be a college or guild for apothecaries.

the real question, though, is what these would be called... after all, the wizarding world tends to have a touch of whimsy to it, but since there's literally a clinical body in the uk called "nice", the muggles might have won this round...

[scarlet-stu-dies]

18. 10. 2024

today was fun.

woke up at 5. read through bdc a bit before breakfast.

9 - 10 - nerve muscle physiology. they only taught us what we already knew about neurons from 11th/12th grade.

10 - 11 - anatomy - joints. taught us the basics about joints and their types and mostly covered everything except moveable joints.

11 - 1 - foundation course. basically teaching us how we are supposed to approach learning while in mbbs.

1 - 2 - walked back to the hostel, had lunch, went back to the college.

2 - 3 - biochem. mostly the proff took the entire time to talk about the subject and what he expects from us and about the exams and stuff.

3 - 5 - anatomy. all the teachers of the dept gathered us all, assigned each of us a cadaver (groups of 20) and had us take the cadaveric oath. ngl the formalin did make my eyes water. i was on table one so I was near the storage and ig there's more formalin covered stuff in there?

after that i accompanied my friends as they bought their books and then we all went to buy our dissection kits. (dissection is tomorrow!! can't wait!!) and by the time i came back to hostel it was 7-ish?

the seniors gathered us around, no ragging just a bit of an interaction. then dinner time rolled around but i skipped it to wash clothes 💀 (kya halat ho gayi hei yaar meri-)

anyway then me and my roommates tried group study. the keyword is 'TRIED'. none of us are group study people so it didn't work out.

i read the intro to the first chapter in physiology. and then started with anatomy lower limb. we're working on the hip bone rn and will finish that in tomorrow's lecture. i wanted to complete it tonight but i don't think that'll work out, really. it's already 1:30 and I don't wanna annoy my roommates by keeping the lights on for long.

and besides, i often found myself on the verge of falling asleep during lectures because I got used to sleeping a lot during the 5 months gap between neet and now and I don't want that to continue so ig i really should get some sleep.

good night, loves! <3

[fairyspheres]

there's something in series two of good omens that i actually really liked that i haven't seen anyone else talk about: how the graverobbing/body snatching in the episode with elspeth and morag wasn't villainised, as it usually is in media.

rather, they portray it in a very realistic manner. it's true that body snatching was a big deal in the early nineteenth century. medicine was advancing but religion was not and the two would often clash, especially in the laws of the time. the condemned could be allowed to be used for study but, as the show points out, there were only so many murderers.

did the doctors and surgeons prey upon the poor for them to do their dirty work? absolutely, but the risk of getting caught also had the high reward of multiple pounds (and it's worth noting that the £5 that elspeth got would be worth between £300-500 today). of course the poor would take the chance if it would mean being able to secure lodging and food.

the surgeon was also correct in saying that the body snatching, as unsavoury as it was, was necessary for the advancements in medicine and knowledge of anatomy, as well as saving lives. we wouldn't know anything today without people risking their lives to attend illegal dissections, and without the body snatching to learn more about shit like lingering conditions and causes of death.

idk, i just found it to be really cool.

[kittykatninja321]

we had to dissect a cow knee in anatomy today and all I could think and talk about was making beef stock

[sleepy-gardevoir]

may 3, 2023 - wednesday week 8

today in anatomy lab, we dissected a fetal pig and a sheep pluck (heart, lungs, and trachea), and there was a cow heart for us to look at. i knew that the ventricles had thick walls, but you really don't appreciate HOW thick until you can see one in cross section. it was really interesting!

in research, we were finally able to do our microwave reaction to get tungsten quantum dots since our microwave was fixed. we were having some problems with the uv-vis, so here's hoping that clears up a bit by next week!

i can't believe it's already close to the end of the quarter and the school year! time flies etc etc

song of the day: sleeping house by radiator hospital

[hwsforeignrelations]

Unfinished USUK Twilight AU (2022)

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Forks, Washington, USA

It was a damp, drizzling Monday morning at Forks, Washington when Fork’s High School English and Biology teacher exchanged snide greetings at the staff meeting.

“Dismal morning, Mr Jones.”

“I don’t have the energy to pretend to like you today, Artie.”

“It’s okay if you don’t like me. Not everyone has good taste.”

President Williams coughed to get their attention, smiling with resilient tolerance, “Are we done?”

“...”

“Yep.”

“Good. Great. Sorry Toris, please continue.”

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Alfred cringed as he sent the new student, Isabella Swan, daughter of Ford’s police chief, to the seat next to Edward Cullen. That guy was an oddball, not the sort you wanted to make a first Forks impression. Swan might be misled to believe there’s more depth to this town. Don’t build unreasonable expectations, bud, Alfred thought.

Cullen glared at him.

Ek. To be honest with himself, which he tried to do, Alfred had a suspicion that Cullen could read his mind. It could be coincidental, but everytime he approached an experimental recipe (typically including at least one pound of beef, concentrated soda syrup and doughnuts) during brainless lecturing Cullen turned a vague shade of green. Whatever.

Alfred began today’s lecture on cellular anatomy, wiping his eyes as inconspicuously as possible when Cullen not-so-inconspicuously sniffed Ms Swan (what the fuck), made a face (haha), and leaned as far away from his partner (HA!), on the verge of toppling his chair. I guess the sunny essence of Phoenix doesn’t sit well with emos.

When the bell rang for next period Alfred was hardly breathing, twitching from the effort to not burst out laughing. The last student filtered out and Alfred rushed to his office to muffle gasping cries into a jacket.

Alfred was still shaking when he jerkily lowered the jacket– and promptly brought it back up for a second round of belly aching laughter. It was just– their faces. Swan on the edge of tears, Cullen with shoulders touching his ears and this look of revulsion.

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When hysterics dissolved to the occasional cough someone knocked the office door and he jumped.

“Ah-hem,” the Biology teacher cleared his throat and straightened his frazzled appearance. “Come in!”

In walked Arthur Kirkland with a Dunkin’ pastry bag, coffee and tea in hand. He set all three on the desk and appraised Alfred, “Dissecting onions, Jones?”

Jones’ glasses slid down his nose when shook his head ‘no’, “That’s next Monday.”

[duvidha-mp3]

anatomy is so... I'm so... the upper limb is apparently the easiest part??? and I'm so confusion. I'm just. we had a test today and all the different terms got mixed up in my head and lord knows what I've written. the lateral pectoral nerve became the long thoracic nerve. forgot about the existence of cephalic vein (even tho we had SEEN it during dissection) pretty sure i wrote anastomosis instead of aponeurosis. and so many more mistakes ❤️

[crowsonlinediary]

August 22, 2024

Todays choice of clothes:

-South Park goth kids t-shirt from Hot Topic

-The Lost Boys jacket from Hot Topic

-Invader Zim Gir buckle belt from Spencer’s

-Jeans from Target

-Hedgehog themed black ankle socks from Target

-Black combat boots from Walmart

Morning - Today I woke up around 5am in order to get ready for school, I took my daily vitamins and showered, got dressed and ate cereal for breakfast while I watched The Flintstones and The Jetsons for the early morning cartoons, then I brushed my teeth and got my hair done, packed my bag and went off to school where I met up with my friends and my boyfriend, Orange, soon the bell rang and I headed off to my first class with Orange.

P1: Math unfortunately is my first period, not only that but I have IM1 which the school made me retake 3 times cuz they wanna see my downfall. We didn’t do much just get our homework checked which takes so long apparently cuz T1V is an old lady so it takes longer for her to remember and do shit, but 0T1U is way younger than her, early to mid 20’s if you ask me, yet she’s as slow as T1V is! And apparently I did SO good on my homework (hm I do wonder why) that I’m being used as an example for every class, so now I feel like I’m being pressured to keep it up, so yay, I guess

P2: Art is my specialty, I may dress dark and gothic but everyone in my class including T2G, I finished out project for the week and she liked it, me and T2G had a conversation about Copic markers as she was examining my poster that I made, then I did my homework for the class since I had 20 minutes left anyways in that class

P3: English is one of the two classes I share with my friends, Orange (my bf) and Ore, every time I walk upstairs to my English class I always see the two of them talking about jumping off the ledge of the English building, which is usual for the two of them, todays English class was boring, we finally had to do work today after pictures, T3S was helping me guide through our new textbooks albeit I could do it by myself still properly, just cuz I’m mentally disabled doesn’t mean I can’t do shit, anyways class was boring as ever since I don’t sit next to Orange or Ore sadly

P4: Spanish class is usually eventful since there’s so many wannabe thugs here, but surprisingly it wasn’t, it was a free study period according to T4B, so all I did was sit here and be on my phone, scrolling away waiting for it to be lunch finally so I can eat with my friends

Lunch: Todays lunch was wings with a Hawaiian roll but I just got Jack in the Box instead, courtesy to my stepdad, G-Bear, since he didn’t work today. My bsf, Teal and my bf Orange took my Jack in the box bag apart, Orange taking the now empty chicken nuggets box (which we shared) and Teal taking a chunk out of the bag itself to only have the Deadpool Jack since they both had Deadpool in it and they both love it. Orange also gifted me a cute tuxedo cat plush which I had to enjoyment of naming Kornelius cuz I like Korn

P5: Anatomy class is one of those calm classes since T5E is an Avid teacher as well, besides some of the older students are more calm and reserved and friendly rather than the rambunctious students in the lower 3 grades, today we got to do an dissection on a sour patch kid in order to get used to which planes are which, my friends Teal and Door were seated beside each other which I find unfair since I’m all by my lonesome, soon after that we got our first quiz of the year on day 6, I believe, it was easy though, as the class time soon came to a close, me Teal and Door were talking amongst each other, I peered at T5E’s class pet snake then we left as the bell rang, me and Teal had a bit of a conversation during passing period and then left

P6: History class is one of my easy classes, but my class is filled to the brim with those basic pick me girlies and the wannabe gangster boys, I have the unfortunate to sit in a group of three jock gangster friends which I did not choose by the way, they decided to sit next to me which is weird since nobodies ever done that before. One of the boys, Texas, kept peering at me though, not in a “gazing at my crush” sort of gaze but the usual state you do at people when zoning out, but I don’t know, ever since I got my hair cut and a boyfriend I feel as if boys stare at me more often than they ever had since middle school, but that’s just a me thing. For class we had to finish up an assignment that we started yesterday but I was busy playing games on my computer but I did get most of it done though, I’ll finish it at home

Afterschool: Finally at home, tomorrow will be the final day of this school week and I’m so happy about that, there’s supposed to be a freshmen football game going on soon but nobody ever goes to those games cuz freshmen SUCK. Anyways I undressed from my school clothes and dressed into my pajamas which are a vampire university hand me down shirt from my mother, Mal, that came from Hot Topic, and my Gir pajama pants that are from Spencer’s, I am currently relaxing in my snoopy themed bed watching the tv in my room while also doing my math homework, homework fucking sucks I don’t wanna do this anymore, fuck the guy that made homework hope he’s rotting in hell as well speak, nothing else eventful will happen today as I know of, so this is me, Crow, signing off

♡〜٩(^▿^)۶〜♡

[sciencestyled]

When Paintbrushes Meet Test Tubes: A Comically Genius Guide to the Art-Science Mashup

Ah, the age-old debate: science versus art. It's like choosing between pizza and ice cream for dinner – both fantastic, but oh, so different. But what happens when you mash them together? You get a sundae topped with pepperoni, my friends – weird, but strangely satisfying. This is the space where beakers and brushes coexist in quirky harmony, creating a fusion of knowledge and beauty. And, of course, we're going to explore this delightful conundrum with as many pop culture references as humanly possible. Hold onto your lab coats and berets, folks!

First off, let's address the neon elephant in the room: Art and science are often seen as polar opposites. Science is all logic, numbers, and facts – the Spock of our story. Art, on the other hand, is the Captain Kirk – impulsive, emotional, and wildly creative. But, as any "Star Trek" fan will tell you, Spock and Kirk are better together, and the same goes for art and science.

Now, imagine if Leonardo da Vinci had decided to stick to just art or just anatomy. The world would have been robbed of a man who could sketch a Vitruvian Man in one hand and dissect the mysteries of the human body in the other. Da Vinci was the OG (Original Genius) of combining art and science. He didn't just paint pretty pictures; he used his art to dig into the scientific wonders of the world.

Fast forward a few centuries to the era of Instagram and TikTok, where art promotes science education in the most dazzling ways. Ever seen those hypnotizing videos where someone pours colored liquids into a petri dish, and it blossoms into a psychedelic display? That's art teaching science, folks! It's like watching "Breaking Bad," but instead of cooking meth, they're making art and teaching chemistry.

Speaking of chemistry, let's talk about the explosive reactions that happen when art and science collide. For instance, have you ever seen a sculpture that moves with the wind or changes its appearance with the angle of sunlight? That's not just art; that's physics and engineering donning a beret and calling itself "sculpture." It's like Iron Man building his suit – a perfect blend of tech and aesthetics.

And let's not forget biology, the science of life, which has been inspiring artists since the first caveman drew a woolly mammoth on his living room wall. Today, we have artists using living cells to create bioluminescent art. It's like "Avatar," but in a petri dish.

On the flip side, science benefits immensely from art. Ever heard of data visualization? It's the art of turning rows of snooze-worthy numbers into stunning graphs and charts that even a six-year-old could understand. It's like taking the plot of "Inception" and turning it into a Dr. Seuss book.

Moreover, art challenges scientists to think outside the proverbial box. A scientist might see a blob of cells under a microscope, but an artist sees a potential masterpiece. It's a bit like how MacGyver looks at a paperclip and sees a tool to save the world. Artists can inspire scientists to view their work through a different lens, adding a splash of creativity to their logical minds.

Now, let's talk about technology, the love child of art and science. From stunning video games that teach physics (Portal, anyone?) to virtual reality experiences that let you walk through a human heart, technology is the bridge between art and science. It's like if Tony Stark and Bob Ross had a baby – it would create beautiful landscapes with a suit of armor.

In conclusion, the intersection of art and science is like a Marvel movie – full of unexpected crossovers, collaborations, and a fusion of different worlds. It’s a place where creativity meets logic, where beauty intertwines with facts, and where education becomes fun. So, the next time you think about art and science, remember they're not just two separate subjects; they're two sides of the same coin, flipping endlessly in the air, waiting for us to catch them and marvel at their combined beauty. And who knows, maybe one day we'll have a school subject called "SciArt" – where students paint with chemicals and calculate the geometry of sculptures. Until then, keep mixing those test tubes with your paintbrushes and create some explosively creative magic!

[scarlet-stu-dies]

17 . 10 . 2024

it's 11 pm rn. today was fun.

had physiology and biochemistry lectures in the morning and then an hour break for lunch. and then we had an hour of anatomy lectures and then got taken to the dissection hall. they instructed us all to sit around the cadavers assigned to us and gave us the rules about everything.

by the time I got back to hostel it was 5:30 and then I went out to buy the textbooks.

skipped dinner, called some friends and before I realised it, it was 10pm already.

i find myself wayy too sleepy to study and/or do anything right now, sadly.

i've put the alarms so i hope im able to wake up early to study and revise for tomorrow's classes. (and also complete writing that one fanfic review and read that new fanfic and make some progress in my novel and also on the pxj fanfic and-)

alright, good night y'all!

[shreyshreyhappenings]

My 3rd attempt on trying to write my daily blog . Yayy. Hello again , here I am with another tazaaa blog. Ig I’m becoming more used to it. Today was a typography day. Basically a typography test which was fun not gonna lie, but I was pretty nervous about it. So, today milly ma’am decided to take a quiz / test on anatomy of type. She wrote the word typography on the board and randomly asked each one of us about anatomy of type, basically we dissected it all. Now today we also got to learn about typefaces and its type designer, through a card game. We basically played cards today but different types of cards. These were typeface cards. It was also to test our knowledge about typefaces and type designers. So, each one of us had to pick one card and guess which typeface was on that card along with the type designer. It was a really engaging and fun way to learn more about typeface and their type designers. Now, today we also got our first assignment to work on which is #knowyourclassmate. We had our partners with us for this assignment. [ assigned by milly ma’am] So we were supposed to get to know about our classmate/partner with whom we were paired up with and make a poster about them. So, for this assignment I was paired with manas, I asked him a few questions , he asked me a few , actually not few we got to know a lot about each other , which was needed for the poster. This is what all we did in today’s class. I’ll take my leave from here and will meet you in another one of my blogs with something new to learn. Also, here are a few notes I made during the class which only I can understand because of the handwriting. Hehe.

[e-laing-arts246-03]

I was very interested in the textbook readings for this week as they went into more detail about font and type anatomy, classification, and even some history which was super interesting to learn about as a history nerd like myself. I found some of the information such as how kids learn to write with a perfectly even line that divides their letters, most typefaces do not actually perfectly even as the x-high usually occupies more than half of the cap height. The larger the x-height is in relation to the cap height, the bigger the letters appear to be. I was also interested in the different classifications of typefaces such as humanist or traditional, to modern. I find it interesting how each typeface reflects the art and culture of the time it was created just as much as any other form of art or design would like a painting that would be studied for its Greek and Roman classical appeal, typefaces can function the same way as a reflection the style of a period or art movement. I personally am a big fan of all things modern as far as type goes however, I think it is important to consider that this is not an ultra-modern typeface that resembles that of computer code that some people might think of, this so-called modern typeface as described in the book, Bodoni, was designed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, so not modern by our standards today. I also really enjoyed reading more about hand lettering and seeing some of the examples I thought were super interesting in the text. I would like to explore more hand lettering in the future to make my own unique typefaces. The textbook reading goes hand in hand with what we are doing this week in class as we finished our two 27th letter forms and have started making the spreads depicting our new letters, showing how we made them and dissected them using that vocabulary of type anatomy such as stem, bowl, shoulder, and more to show how we went about creating our new letterforms. This week I started laying out my spreads in InDesign and I had a lot of fun playing with creating two very distinct moods with each of my letter forms. For my first one, my serif, I wanted it to be very playful and fun and have a little retro vibe to it. For my second letter form, I wanted to go for something a little more geometric and modern with a darker more professional, and academic look to the colors and spreads. After receiving feedback in the in-progress critique today I will be making some adjustments and possibly reworking some of my layout choices for my second letter to get a more geometric and modern feeling to them.

[ycastroarts246-01]

Blog 6 5.17.23

today we critiqued one another’s sketches. I enjoyed seeing all the different letters my classmates formed and fonts they chose. we also started finalizing our letters and transferring them to the computer. I was initially worried about this project but so far, it’s becoming my favorite. I had fun creating my letters in illustrator and wish I had more time to create several. I can definitely see myself continuing to create different letters later in my career. I started creating my spreads for the project; the image is a progress pic from last night. I’m not in love with it, but I think it’s coming along nicely. I’m most likely going to stick to black and white until after critiques today.

Reading: Anatomy, Size, Classification & Alignment, Vertical Alignment, Hierarchy

After catching up on the reading for yesterday and today, I can never look at letters the same way. I didn’t think I could get this excited about letters but alas I’m ecstatic! I’ve always been the type of person that if I write a letter or word really pretty, i’ll stop and just admire for awhile, now I feel like it’s only going to get worse. haha.

Seeing letters dissected in this way really makes me wonder what went on in the minds of the original creators of the alphabet while creating each letter. I also wonder what they would think about the different fonts created and the digitalization of everything.

[lilithian-labyrinth]

Damn, in today's anatomy dissection class, table 3 had bugs in cadaver, due to faulty preservation.

Well, we are right now learning the lower limb, and i did the dissection for femoral triangle. Damn the formalin lol. Caused a lottttt of irritation of eyes nose throat.

[irisputnam]

Rumination 14

In this week's class lectures, we looked into chapter 9 of Sturken & Cartwright and the topic of scientific looking! The first thing we looked into about the topic was one of the earliest computer renderings of dimensional human figures. These were made for technical purposes and were used to represent the cockpit of an airplane which was very interesting to see! Another topic we dove deeper into was media, art, and gender politics which was very interesting to learn about as well. This dove deeper into the medical skills and gaze involving techno, art, or craft, and mainly focuses on drawings. The next topic we discussed was actually my favorite topic we hit on that talked about more of the anatomical and surgical theaters! These theatres are where autopsies or dissections were performed by doctors for people who had a fascination with the art of the body or were just normal students trying to learn about the human body. These anatomy theatres are not still performing today, but we do have something called body museums that allows us to look into the human body still. Body museums are buildings full of art of the human body for people who want to look more into seeing human remains. After learning about this week's discussion, I have learned so much more about the different ways the human body is perceived and has been discovered over the years. Technology and the human body have never been something I have gotten into, but it was interesting to hear about. I never thought that these two topics had any similarities at all, but I found it very educational and I loved all the examples we studied and discussed in this week's lecture on scientific looking!