Year: 2008

  • Week 110 – hand anatomy

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    This week I talked about the anatomy of the hand, and in particular the intrinsic muscles of the hand. The extrinsic muscles, the blood supply and the nervous innervation are largely covered elsewhere, and you need to link all these bits together. I talked about how the tendons of the flexor digitorum superficialis and flexor…

  • iPhone becomes top handset in U.S.

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    I think this is a little amazing: the Apple iPhone is the number one selling mobile phone in the US. How can such a large, expensive, multifunctional device be so popular? It must be good, and more people these days must need more than just a phone. LA Times article.

  • Week 109 – embryology of the musculoskeletal system

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    Last week I gave a lecture on the development of the musculoskeletal system, restricting the talk to the cells of the somites and the organisation of the cells of the limbs. If you want to recap the lecture, you can listen to the podcasts in iTunes, or hear them here: ep5, somites; ep6 limbs.

  • Movember

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    I’m raising money for the prostate cancer charity. Do you want to find out how? Go visit uk.movember.com for more info. Oh yeah, and donate some money! Photos to follow, after you’ve all checked the link out.

  • Rainforest Fungus Naturally Synthesizes Diesel

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    Wired reports, “A fungus that lives inside trees in the Patagonian rain forest naturally makes a mix of hydrocarbons that bears a striking resemblance to diesel, biologists announced today. And the fungus can grow on cellulose, a major component of tree trunks, blades of grass and stalks that is the most abundant carbon-based plant material…

  • Week 109 – breast anatomy

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    In the last anatomy session I talked about the anatomy of the breast (or mammary gland), changes through life, and the similarities between the male and female breast. I started off by talking about supernumerary nipples, using James Bond’s fake nipple as a bad example in the film, “The Man With The Golden Gun”. I…

  • Beating heart

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    Beating heart, originally uploaded by samwebster. I need this. For work.

  • Scott Sigler’s Nocturnal

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    Now listening to Nocturnal by Scott Sigler, another in his line of excellent horror novel podcasts. It’s nasty. Scott Sigler’s Nocturnal

  • Movember

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    Hmmm, have I missed the boat, or do I now have a reason to grow a pimp ‘tache for a month? movember.com

  • Epiploic appendices!

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    In the last group of the anatomy teaching this morning I was struggling to think of the right name for the little fatty bits of peritoneum hanging off the large bowel. The textbook calls them omental appendices, which I know is correct but doesn’t have the right feel. A quick search of the web turns…