The Visible Human Project

Images from the Visible Human Project. Source: The Visible Human Project / National Library of Medicine⚠️ Content warning: The images in this post could be upsetting to some readers. It’s really weird that we don’t know what is going on inside our bodies. Most of us don’t have a clear idea where our various organs are (let alone their actual functions). At the risk of grossing you all out a bit, let’s take a look deep inside the human body. The National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine maintains a valuable and unique dataset that gives viewers an extremely clear picture of what lies beneath our skin. Created to “produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts”, the Visible Human Project is a public dataset that consists of thousands of color photos and scans of two sliced-up human cadavers — one man and one woman.Cross section of the male cadaver's head. The…