The common description is that a scab is blood that has dried, and that is close enough to be misleading. If you leave a drop of blood on a table…
Maya Linton
The thing has a formal description in the research literature, which translates roughly as short-lived abdominal pain related to exercise. The word stitch is the one everybody actually uses.
The…
The pupil is not a part. It is a hole, and the only reason it looks like a black disc is that almost nothing comes back out of it.
Light…
The usual assumption is that phantom sensations are an unusual complication affecting a minority. The figures run the other way. The great majority of people who lose a limb as…
The Light Is Not Being Carried, It Is Trapped
The intuitive picture of a fibre optic cable is a pipe with light shining down it, kept on course by a…
The Experience Is Extraordinarily Consistent
Somebody wakes, knows exactly where they are, can see the room, and cannot move. Not weakness, not stiffness, but a complete absence of response, as…