In Defense of Full Body Scanners at Airports

Neal Bortz has up an interesting post in defense of the use of full body scanners to screen people at airports. He recently was put through one in Atlanta after the metal from his knee replacement surgery set off the traditional metal detector. He says usually when this happens it takes quite a while to have someone check him manually, where as with the scanner it was very quick.

Interactive MRI Scan

If you know me outside of the blog, you know that my father died of brain cancer. In the course of his treatments, he had many MRI - magnetic resonance images taken of his head. It brought about an interest in me for the art. Now one blogger has put his own MRI online for others to see. Click on over. It is fascinating to see all the slices of his brain, to see the structure of the home of our thoughts.