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…
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…
It watched you first, and it picked you on purpose. Here are eleven.
1. There Is No Such Bird as a Seagull
The word covers several dozen distinct species with…
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…