…Thirty spokes converge in a hub
There where there is nothing,
That is the chariot’s usefulness.
Fashion earth to make a vase from it,
There where there is nothing,
That is the vessel’s usefulness– Lao Zi
Emptiness…makes it possible to move about freely and succeeds in ‘letting pass’. The important thing is not to determine ‘what’ passes – assuming
Tag Archives: Medical imaging
Top of the Heap: Alexander I. Stingl
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Alexander I. Stingl, who is a sociologist and a research consultant for Medical Humanities and Social Sciences with the Institute for General Medicine (IAM) of the University Clinic of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Alexander I. Stingl
On dancing with the smarts: Cleanse and repeat!
My current …
EEG
January, 2525. Below ground. Chemical fumes and white walls. A barely functional weblink with the following webpage, read to the sound of steady beeping:
The science of reading the electrical activity in the cerebral cortex is called encephalography; the material representation of the different electrical folds of the brain an encephalogram.
A biosignal like no other, the EEG is used …
Scan
Put the gaze in motion—sweep it across a field: take it all in, without pause. Binoculars along the horizon. Or if not the gaze, sweep with an energy that can lend itself to vision. Ultrasound, across the ocean bottom. X-rays, around a body. Electron beam, across a sample. Or sweep with the Archive’s electronic eye: inventory gun, across the barcode. …