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Drawing the Body Into Memory
Science students are used to memorizing diagrams. You look at the labeled image. You cover the labels. You quiz yourself. You repeat the process until the structures hopefully stick. But anatomy asks us to understand more than names. We have to know where structures are, how they relate to one another, and how a flat…
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Can Living Cells Become Art?
When people say, “It’s an art, not a science,” they usually mean that art and science belong to separate worlds. Art is seen as emotional, creative, and subjective. Science is treated as logical, measurable, and evidence-based. But neuroscience makes that divide harder to defend. The brain is both the organ that studies the world and…
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International Museum of Surgical Science
The International Museum of Surgical Science is one of Chicago’s most unusual museums. It combines the history of medicine and surgery with the history of one of the city’s remaining lakefront mansions. Located on Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast, the museum occupies the Eleanor Robinson Countiss House. The house is a French-inspired mansion…
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