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Cells Organization In Organs

Biology Medicine Science

1 year ago 27.5K views 0 shares

Cells Organization In Organs

Welcome to Organville, population: TRILLIONS! These circular housing developments are EXACTLY how your tissues organize themselves! Each little neighborhood hub represents a functional unit in organs like the liver (hepatic lobules) or kidneys (nephrons). The roads between them? That's your extracellular matrix and vasculature delivering Amazon packages (nutrients) and picking up trash (metabolic waste)! Your body is basically running a microscopic city planning operation that would make urban designers weep with jealousy. Nature figured out efficient neighborhood design WAY before humans did!

Statistical Malpractice On A Tissue Box

Math Medicine Science

1 year ago 23.1K views 0 shares

Statistical Malpractice On A Tissue Box

Whoever wrote "On average, there are 9.2 million doctors and 18.1 million nurses worldwide" on this tissue box clearly failed Statistics 101. Unless doctors are secretly reproducing asexually at night, there's a fixed total of medical professionals, not an "average." It's like saying "on average, water is wet." The irony of putting this statistical abomination on a product designed for sniffles when the real disease is mathematical illiteracy. Next they'll tell us there are "on average" 7 continents—sometimes 6, sometimes 8, depending on the weather.