Christoph Niemann’s Has a series illustrations up in the New York Times themed upon his inability to sleep. It makes some sense. If you find that you can’t sleep you may as well think about and then illustrate the reasons why this could be. The results charmingly evoke the familiarity of late night (or early morning) frustrations from sleep deprivation. We’ve all been there.

[New York Times]

ABC News (of all places) has some content you should really check out for the sake of the beloved hipster in your life. Skinny jeans are apparently (and medically) bad for you. Ugly boots can be damaging to your feet. Even that over-sized purse can be harmful. Clearly its time to either suffer for your (lack of) fashion, or really re-think your life choices here. In short: Check yourself before you wreck yourself because being a hipster is bad for your healf.

[ABC News]

Sometimes you crave a McGriddle but rationally know you shouldn’t be having one. Don’t worry though. This is natural. Well, your craving is. Not the McGriddle. It just manipulates your nature. Deep down you want to be fat. You like being fat. You’re only human. Its, to paraphrase, “a side effect of human evolution” that you crave the McGriddle and even if it didn’t make you fat, the very idea that its fattening is what you love about it. You, ladies and gentlemen, are masochistic fast food patrons. Fighting it is only denying your nature.

[The frontal cortex]

If you find that your clean white bathroom to be disappointingly free of suggestions of murder and not looking enough like a crime scene you can now lay your mind at ease. Why go through the trouble of seducing a house guest and brutally murdering them in the shower just to accomplish that certain rouge aesthetic? Now you can get this Blood Bath Shower Curtain and Bath mat to satisfy your most Hitchcockian urges without having to even pick up a kitchen knife. Talk about modern convenience! Our only suggestion would be to make it water reactive so that pigmentation only became visible when wet, for that added sense of surprise

[Bath Mat]
[Shower Curtain]

Neil Fraser has taken nine specifically spaced cross sections from an MRI brain scan then affixed portions to corresponding 1″ wooden cubes to create a three dimensional model representing the whole head. The result is a combination of puzzle and visualization tool, allowing one to explore the head in three dimensions very flexibly and turns medical visualization in to a toy. It may not be as useful for doctors but it is a great way to help us visualize and explore biology. One imagines this project being a catalyst for future projects extending the theme with greater complexity and ambition.

[Neil Fraser]