The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

Luis Thomas is a doctor, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy consultant and researcher. He graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Medical School and was dean of Yale University Medical School and Dean of the New York University Medical School and president of the Memorial Faculty of the Sloan-Kettering Institute. He regularly wrote in the New England Journal of Medical Journal and his thesis won two National Book Awards and the Christopher Award with the United States, including several "cell lives: notes for biological observers" It was published in the series of. Doucher and snail won the national book science award. He died in 1993

Madeleine · Grennon pointed out in the article of Medusa 's 2017 article in ancient Greek art, "The classic image of Helusa and the helenized image are more human, but she is certain supernatural details ) After these images may be opening the mouth or losing sharp teeth or beard but keeping the most attractive nature of Gorgon infiltration and indomitable outward look At the top of the Roman tank pole in the 1st and 2nd century, Medusa is almost elegant with her flowing hair (and peeping into her hair), but her silver penetrating eyes are still memories In her funeral funeral and armor, she is a protective amulet, and their eyes symbolically resist evil In the 19th century romanticism continued She did not close her eyes as it was in the early 19th century Antonio Canova studio's plaster model shows the preparation of a marble statue with the big city European Sculpture Court in which the naked Perseus Proudly grabbed some of the hair pulled by several subtle snakes and announced the head of the dead Gaogen.

193 Blacksmith wrote another fatal snail fear stories: "snail watchers" are collecting snails for human enthusiasm for consumption - eventually his research was inherited by them, and He died when the snail slid into the mouth and cut the air. A terrible death. Sheath Miss loves snails, and her biographer, Andrew Wilson, explains how she is accustomed to carrying her with her handbag, having hundreds of snails.

Snails can be found in various environments such as grooves, deserts, deep sea and so on. Land snails may be more familiar to outsiders, but marine snails constitute the bulk of the snail's seeds and have greater diversity and greater biomass. Various types of snails can also be found in freshwater. Most snails have thousands of small, toothy structures on the tongue like the ribbon called Laura. Rajara seems like a scythe, carving food finely. While some terrestrial species and many marine species are omnivorous or predatory carnivores, many snails are herbivores and use their ragraira to eat plants or to clear algae from the surface . When snacking paper or cardboard, snails can not absorb colored pigments, so their feces are also colored.