Inside insides (MRI of various foods)

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MRI is very useful to look inside things you _can't_ cut open, like, say, the head of a living human being. If you think this is spectacular, you should try spending more time in the kitchen. You'll see color too!

My thoughts too: they're not showing me much I don't already know from having cut up the various fruits in question. I'd rather see stuff I can't open up easily.

This could greatly benefit the TWINKIE project.

http://www.twinkiesproject.com

The watermelon reminds my of a julia fractal.

Interesting. I'd like to see more of the 3D composites, they're kinda cool.

Someone should do marshmallow peeps to go with peep research: http://www.peepresearch.org/

It's interesting of course and looks cute, but why would anyone do this?

If I worked within fifty feet of an NMR machine I would do nothing but this, right up until they fired me.

Why should getting fired stop you?

At the very least it helps me build intuition for how a brain actually looks.

I haven't had the opportunity to look at a brain layer by layer, so it's hard to imagine how to construct it from it. However, with common fruits which we've always seen inside out, having an idea of how they look when MRId helps me figure out an inverse map from MIR images to whatever they came from.

In the pursuit of how stuff works.

For science?

No pomegranate? Artichoke is awesome though.

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