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Illustrations of Medical Botany by Joseph Carson, M.D. with drawings on stone by J.H. Colen shows that our books have had many uses. As explained in the note below, an instructor removed many of the plates from this book to use them in the classroom. The list of “out” items never made their way back home.

Here is an example of how someone put the plates back.

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Harvard’s Colorful Library Filled With 2,500 Pigments Collected form Around the World

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Oh. My. God.

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With wry humor and caustic irony, the anonymous, gorilla-masked collective Guerrilla Girls has spent decades exposing hypocrisies both in and out of the art world. Their posters such as The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, which presents the “bright side” of being a woman artist in an art world dominated by men, arrest the viewer with bold lettering. This particular poster circulated in Artforum as an ad, agitated the art world from within a well-read journal. While the poster most directly confronts art world sexism, the message is broad enough to speak to sexism experienced in virtually any field.

Posted by Laura Hillegas Guerrilla Girls (established 1985, United States). The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1988. Brooklyn Museum © Guerrilla Girls

Tryptophan ornament is making me sleepy... Happy holidays from Through the Microscope! A huge thank you to everyone that has made our debut of stained glass chemistry molecule ornaments/sun-catchers a success. Remember - new molecules are always in the making and I am always open to requests!

So many pretties ready to be made into more serotonin and dopamine molecules for my Etsy shop, Through the Microscope! Be sure to put in your order by midnight 12/16 if you're hoping to get it before Christmas! #mymolecule #throughthemicroscope

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Loving the little boxes! #mymolecule #throughthemicroscope

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Serotonin and dopamine stained glass baubles - perfect gifts for that chemistry nerd you know and love this holiday season! Check them out on my Etsy shop - Through the Microscope #molecules #chemistry #nerdyartist #serotonin #dopamine

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Tiny glass studio! Figuring out how to get all the tools set up and organized in the tiny studio 😁#stainedglass #moleculeart #process #artstudio

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Enjoying studio/puttering time after a long weekend of setting up a work space. Hand-cut Layered translucent vinyl design on a clear iPhone case. Design is based on histology of an epiphyseal growth plate (aka the growth plate in long bones)! #histology #anatomy #artandscience #fauxstainedglass

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Harvey Cushing: The Artist Presented by Robert Udelsman

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Really interesting talk, especially after the research I did pertaining to Cushing and Brodel a year or two ago. Besides my own innate fascination with medical illustration, I believe this creates an even stronger argument for basic artistic literacy in education. Without even the first introduction to art as a young child, Cushing would have never even come close to the accomplished surgeon/artist that he later became.

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“Growth Plate” - in-progress time lapse video - June 2015

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“Growth Plate” - in progress sun prints and printing process - June 2015

In-progress photos of sun prints from the latest translucent vinyl pieces I’ve been doing at my residency with Grin City Artist Collective (Grinnell, IA).

Although I love the histological images of plant stem cross sections, I’m really interested in moving into pieces from animal/human tissue, such as bone, muscle, and other tissues. This piece is my first piece in a series entitled “Growth Plate,” working from the histological images of epiphyseal i.e. “growth plates” in human bones, where cartilage transitions into bone, facilitating growth of long bones in the skeleton.

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