Category Archives: Blogs and Blogging

Poem of the Week: artful cuts

Posted on June 20, 2007 by cicada

“Flayed Angel” Jacques Gautier d’Agoty If you’ve not yet done so, pop on over to new blog Morbid Anatomy for a tour of some beautiful vintage medical illustrations. My favorite recent post was this collection of links to the work … Continue reading →

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“Poems, like birds, are everywhere”

Posted on May 23, 2007 by cicada

Animal Locomotion plate 770 (detail) collotype Eadweard Muybridge, 1887 The latest edition of I and the Bird is presented by Via Negativa as a fine found poem: The afternoon lull had set in, but we pressed on. We spotted the … Continue reading →

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Comments problem

Posted on May 22, 2007 by cicada

Final update: unless I hear otherwise I’m going to assume the comment bug is fixed. Let me know if you have any further problems anywhere on the site, and thanks to everyone who helped me troubleshoot.

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Cannibalism, Then and Now

Posted on May 16, 2007 by cicada

Where else but in the blogosphere could one learn that the medieval practice of consuming powdered human corpses has experienced a questionably legal (and questionably real) renaissance? A testimonial from the Modern Man-Eater website: “My bones were just plain getting … Continue reading →

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Popularity Contest!

Posted on May 8, 2007 by cicada

I’ve just added Alex King’s Popularity Contest widget to the sidebar, so you can hop directly to bioephemera’s most read posts. Unfortunately, the widget doesn’t accurately reflect the cumulative hits prior to today, so although the most of the listed … Continue reading →

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. . . therefore, I am?

Posted on April 23, 2007 by cicada

Neurophilosophy does bioephemera the honor of a tag with the Thinking Blog meme! Ironically, I’ve been traveling for the past two weeks, and (since an hour’s work on a post about framing science disappeared irrevocably into the aether of unreliable … Continue reading →

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