1972 Soviet postage stamp commemorating the Mars 2 probe

worth a read

Mars For The Rest of Us — a weekly-or-more deep dive on the technical side of Mars exploration: rocket propulsion, microbiology, mission architecture, and everything in between. Written by Maciej Ceglowski.

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Rubor, Dolor, Tumor, Color!

Found new LiveJournal community, med-school.livejournal.com. Oh, man! What was I missing!

“I was poking around in my cadaver today just kind of checking out the pelvis”
“I did a history and physical on a patient today with one of those “weird” problems”
“They flush out all the blood in our cadavers”

And most importantly:


“Getting a radioactive seed implant for prostate cancer is pretty humiliating. You get to lie on your back, spread eagle, while somebody shoves a phallic-shaped ultrasound up your ass [skip] My patient farted about 50 times during the procedure”

1972 Soviet postage stamp commemorating the Mars 2 probe

worth a read

Mars For The Rest of Us — a weekly-or-more deep dive on the technical side of Mars exploration: rocket propulsion, microbiology, mission architecture, and everything in between. Written by Maciej Ceglowski.

Read it on Substack