My public confession

Today, I made the following public confession in each of the classes I teach at CCU:

"I have a confession to make, and I need to go ahead and get this out of the way.

"It's difficult, but I will make this confession.

"N.C. State has no football team this year."


-Colin Foote Burch, English, NCSU, Class of 1995

N.C. STATE WOLFPACK!!!

We knocked off No. 21 Miami at home! Go Pack!

Here's an early story: http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/891531.html

Historical anatomy images online

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Fascinating and creepy anatomy sketches from old medical texts.

The sense of dark intrigue while viewing anatomical atlases from yesteryear.

The U.S. National Medical Library has posted a big chunk of its Historical Anatomies collection online.

Dive into weird and wonderful presentations of the human body at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/home.html .

As for the praying fellow above, he is a fan of the N.C. State Wolfpack, begging God for a football win. Notice he's been there a while.

Actually, he's an icon for the religious life -- we're already dead, even as we seek the eternal.