Emily Davidow

Here’s a fun way to display and navigate lots of pictures. Postcard Viewer 1.1 available for free download to make this kind of animated show. Look for it in use here soon! Thanks Happy Corp for making me smile today!

Apparently, the brain feels like… tofu. “The soft variety, if you know tofu.” Somehow I always imagined it to be more glutinous, like mochi. The great news: “Because it is soft, the brain, it turns out, is a forgiving, flexible organ.” Not so great: tumors can grow to “‘impressive citrus fruit proportions’ before patients even notice something amiss”.
Besides the intriguing memoir, Another Day in the Frontal Lobe : A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside, Katrina Firlik has a fascinating personal site filled with brain favorites (quotes, facts, images) and an online gallery of her original drawings illustrating the resemblance of brain structures and surgical tools to flowers, animals and hello kitty. At left, a brainstem and an orchid. I could spend hours just medulla-gazing.