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Knit Me A Brain (and Don't Forget the Corpus Callosum Zipper)

By retrospectacle on December 1, 2007.

While not as shockingly unusual as the knitted teratoma I reported on a while back, this knitted brain (located at the awesomely-titled 'Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art') is equally amazing. Regions are knitted with varying colors, and the corpus callosum is a zipper!

Here's a view of the brain from above, and "opened-up" (the hemispeheres seperated with yarn spinal cord trailing.)

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Artist: Karen Norberg, Location: Boston Museum of Science

"Building a brain with yarn and knitting needles turns out to follow many of the same pathways as actual brain development," says Norberg.

Here's a side view:

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And every second in it
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Oh, but the truth? You know it's bull!

I could stay here, just a-sittin'
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I was thinking about my life and how I always seem to have more to do than I have time to actually get done. It just boggles the mind to think there are people out there with enough free time to knit a brain..KNIT A BRAIN!!!

Then I realized if i wasn't killing time posting meaningless comments to SciBlogs I might have time to get more done. OK, bye, I am going to go be useful now.

Wonderful cuttlefish! I did have a soft spot for the teratoma. Even tumors can have personality. :)