Mircea Cantor

"The Landscape is Changing"

"Tracking Happiness"

Mircea Cantor

small hearts

Mosquito heart. Jonas King, Vanderbilt Unviersity: "The green structures are the muscles and the blue dots are cell nuclei. The narrow tube running from left to right is the actual heart of the mosquito and the fan shaped structures are called alary muscles."


Crystallized soy sauce. Yanping Weng, Beijing Planetarium.

Originals, and other very small things via Discover

Via Retrospace.
Caption: during the topless fad of the Sixties, concert halls were visited by topless cellists.

I am trying to decide if this photo is "inappropriate." I don't think so, but I guess someone might.

I like the guy in the front row who is covering his face. As if it were shameful to watch a topless lady in cat ears play the cello. I feel like she must be wearing a mask.

Live / learn

Today was "career day" for Baraboo students. Local careerpeople demonstrated their careers. Most importantly, how did I live 24 years thinking "heartworm" was a metaphorical name for a parasite that actually lived inside guts or skin or somesuch?

No, it turns out, worms actually take up residence inside your dog's heart. This is both horrifying and amazing.

Tastes like train

Getting tied to railroad tracks: a dead horse trope. Which of course means there has to be a creative way it can still be used.