Stuff I thought you'd like to know...
Bodily features:
Seahorse (hippocampus - a part of the brain which is involved with memory)
Wings (pinna - your outer ears)
Snails (cochlea - inner ear)
Extra 'eyelashes' (cilia - found on your lungs and right up your nasal passage and in your cochlea)
Funny names:
Zajonc
Shams
Schacter
Chomsky
Crick
Gazzaniga
Lazarus
Plutchik
Poggendorf
Stroop (this is really cool, actually. The guy discovered that reading becomes so automatic for us that if you put words in different colours and ask people to say the colour instead of the word, they find it quite hard to do quickly. Especially if it is something like "GREEN" in the colour red. This phenomenon is called The Stroop Effect)
Random, other
aqueous humour - literally, 'watery fluid' - but it has to sound scientific, of course!
"Nodes of Ranvier" - sounds like it's straight out of a fantasy story!
Pacinian corpuscle - in your skin, senses vibration
Angular gyrus - brain area related to language & reading
and, did you know that all the colours we perceive are translated from information encoded from just 3 different coloured (well, 3 wavelengths) cones in our eyeballs!
That'll do I think.
For a true fantasy experience, travel through the digestive system. Journey down the villi into the crypts of Lieberkuhn. Be transported out of the pancreas through the islets of Langerhans. Fight off waves of peristalsis as you try to force your way through the serosa...
ReplyDeletehahaha yes, exactly! that's awesome.
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