More juxtapositions
July 18, 2014I have a soft spot for oddly juxtaposed teaching materials, e.g., a handout covering both lab-grown meat and the structure of the song “Hound Dog.”
Here are some strange bedfellows that appeared in animal physiology this spring and summer.
Above: two ways to convey the idea that most sodium ions (chemical symbol Na+) is outside cells rather than inside.
Above: Clostridium botulinum toxin, an inhibitor of the salt glands of marine birds … and the facial muscles of wealthy humans.
Above: In retrospect, this illustration of the importance of blood pressure regulation may have been too oblique.
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