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A. de Perre - Stämningsstycken, 1900-1910

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Death head moth.

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France

Josef Koudelka, 1987

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US VOGUE SEPTEMBER 2006 FIGHT CLUB MODELS: CAROLINE TRENTINI, GEMMA WARD, LISA CANT, SASHA PIVOVAROVA HAIR: JULIEN D'YS MAKE-UP: STÉPHANE MARAIS PHOTOGRAPHER: IRVING PENN FASHION EDITOR: PHYLLIS POSNICK

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Saatchi Art Artist: Seyo Cizmic; Wood 2012 Sculpture “Harakiri”

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drained of blood, the heart is white

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woah

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No, that is NOT what this is. You’ve taken an amazing medical invention, a total game changer, and made up some stupid, faux-deep sentence fragment for it that is a complete falsehood. You should be embarrassed and ashamed, honestly.

This is a ghost heart. What they’ve done is taken a pig heart and stripped it down to, basically, a cell framework that they can use to BUILD A NEW HEART UPON. You could inject stem cells into this framework so that a newly formed personalized heart can be transplanted into a donor with a significantly reduced chance of rejection. FUCKING AMAZING. It’s not been done with human tissue yet, but the promise this given to people who need hearts - or kidneys or livers or whatever - is beautiful. Science is beautiful.

And it’s IMPERATIVE to mention that a woman, Doris Taylor, at the Texas Heart Institute developed this. And she started with a rat heart and worked up to he bigger, more complex (and more human) pig heart. What a total bad ass.

So look, quit making shit up, learn to do a reverse image search on stuff you find on the internet, and STOP ERASING WOMEN IN SCIENCE.