20 November
284 Diocletian was proclaimed emperor at Nicomedia
2003 terrorist bombings at Istanbul
(first of) Top 10
1999.11.20 16:10
(second of) Top 10
1999.11.20 16:21
9 November 1778
2000.11.20
Signing of Buildings
2000.11.20
sarcophagus, not sepulcher
2000.11.20
not so popular science
2000.11.20
Taken Literally or Not
2000.11.20
theft
2000.11.20
20 November 1996
2001.11.20 13:16
Quondam - a virtual museumof architecture (from Philadelphia)
2001.11.20 13:16
Re: Ben Franklin on TV (reminder)
2002.11.20 11:09
Rock Creek maps
2002.11.20
Ben Franklin, etc.
2002.11.20 12:17
"seamless city" Philadelphia version
2002.11.20 16:16
Re: Leon Battista Alberti the theoretician of art: Philosopher, architect, musician, painter and sculptor
2003.11.20 12:17
Re: philosopher-architect
2005.11.20 12:10
06112001.db Conference Room of the Olivetti Headquarters, Milton Keyes
Vaux, Vecelli, Verdier, Vergara
2006.11.20 12:28
Architecture Movies
2007.11.20 16:58
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not so popular science
2000.11.20
Rick wrote:
Artists have long had a nervous habit of reinterpreting scientific, social, etc., wonders into their depictions. Thus, for blindered fields (medicine is typically one of these), exposure to seemingly unrelated regimens should be one source of new models of thinking.
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A few weeks ago I finally asked my doctor (who is now beginning a specialization in cardiology) whether the human heart is seen as akin to an electro-magnet within the medical field. He gave me a strange look and then asked "what do you mean?" I said that when you look up the dictionary definition (in Webster's Third International Dictionary) of heart and electromagnet that they are virtually identical. I then went on to explain how the salt in the blood is an electrified atom and that the iron in the blood can spontaneously magnetize (simply chemistry, actually), and that the heart's S-A node concentrates the salt, generates a 'spark', sends the current through the muscle network, and ultimately charges the blood/iron within the heart, thus the beat.
My doctor was fascinated, and said I should write a novel about it all. I told him I'm writing a theory, and its called chronosomatics.
I then again asked my doctor if the field of medicine ever refers to the heart as an electromagnet, and he said not to his knowledge.
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