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Man Accidentally Shoots Nail Into His Brain, Doesn’t Notice

by Max Eddy | 2:00 pm, January 22nd

Dante Autullo was working on a ladder in his Orland Park garage when he lost control of a nail gun and accidentally smacked it against his head. He texted a photo of the small scratch on his scalp to his fiance Gail Glaenzer, and thought nothing more of it. He went about his business driving a plow truck for some eight hours, and even dropped off his kids for a play rehearsal. It wasn’t until waking up nauseous from a nap that he was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center and a three and a half inch nail was found lodged in his brain.

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Oh My

X-Ray Vision Reveals Objects Ingested and Inserted [Infographic]

by Max Eddy | 10:59 am, July 29th

Medical treatments have become far more nuanced with the proliferation of X-Ray technology, and it has also allowed the creation of an infographic chronicling the most ridiculous things both ingested and inserted into the human body. This is a family publication, so I won’t elaborate too much on the whole “insertion” angle, except to say that some people need to use some common sense and be safer. Nevertheless, it’s a very, uh, revealing look at what some people are willing to put in themselves.

Take A Look Inside The Human Body

Stingray, X-Rayed

by Robert Quigley | 2:55 pm, March 31st

Meet the Heliotrygon gomesi, a newly discovered species of Amazonian stingray. Beautiful x-ray photo taken by UTSC’s Ken Jones.

(Our Amazing Planet via Boing Boing.)

Lightning Crashes

The First-Ever X-Ray Images of a Lightning Strike

by James Plafke | 11:57 am, December 28th

No, that’s not one of the ships from Independence Day vaporizing Kiersten Warren, it’s actually one of the first-ever x-ray images of a lightning strike. Joseph Dwyer, a lightning researcher at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, used a custom 1,500 pound camera, created by grad student Meagan Schaal, to capture the image of the strike.

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Eerie X-Rays of Flowers

by Robert Quigley | 9:57 am, August 6th

It might not look like it, but the picture above is a dozen roses. It’s the work of artist Hugh Turvey, who runs flowers through colored x-rays to produce striking, ghostly images.

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This Exists: X-Ray Pin-up Calendar [Pics]

by Robert Quigley | 10:05 am, June 16th

Medical imaging firm EIZO wanted to come up with a catchy giveaway that highlighted their expertise in “high-precision displays for the examination and diagnosis of radiographs.” The result, dreamt up by German ad firm BUTTER: A pin-up calendar in which women, truly, truly bare all. As the promotion concept puts it, “Very popular among craftsmen but quite new for medics: Pin-up calendars. At last, one which shows absolutely every detail.”

The photo for January is above. Check out the full calendar after the jump:

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