Pancreas or ? Freshman year at UCSF School of Dentistry: Gross Human Anatomy. Fall of 1970: There were 80 in my class, 79 men and one lady. On our first day in Human anatomy, I am pretty sure no one amongst us had ever seen a dead human body. You enter the lab and there are twenty stainless steel tables. Each with a human cadaver covered by a rubber sheet. I was the most curious I stepped forward and pulled back the rubber sheet. I exposed an elderly woman with fluids (formaldehyde ?) oozing out or every orifice. My classmate: Dr Tim, himself deceased, made a comment that earned him his forever nickname: Teen Angel. I cannot reveal in public what he said to earn him this accurate nickname: Teen Angel. If you are interested in his statement, you must DM or text me and we can discuss. I will not reveal his statement to any woman. We had no quizzes , midterms. We had only the final exam to determine our grade for this program. No pressure (white man lie, much pressure!) The final exam consisted of fifty stations where we would identify the anatomical object and describe its functions. I came to ~the 15th station and I look at the object, I relook at the object: “Identify this specimen and give two functions”. I swear that I am not making this up. The specimen is about 6 inches long and I could swear it was a penis. It’s two functions: 1: excretion and 2. Reproduction. About two stations later it ‘Hit Me’ That was NOT a penis it was a Pancreas. Its two functions are Endocrine: Insulin and Glucagon for blood sugar. and Exocrine: enzymes for digestion. It is truly amazing that these two organs look so much alike while lying on a silver tray? Gary G 11/10/2024. Song of the day has nothing to do with the story but is a nice song: “Aquarius” by the 5th Dimension

The planet Venus in the constellation Aquarius shines brightly above the Moon in the constellation Capricornus tonight. The binary star Iota Aquarii is visible below Venus. The hypergiant Nashira and the binary Deneb Algedi are visible above the Moon; Epsilon Capricorni & Kappa Capricorni are to the left of the Moon, and the G-type giant Iota Capricorni & the semiregular variable giant 29 Capricorni are visible to the right. #Venus #Moon #Aquarius #Capricornus #Hypergiant #Giant #SemiregularVariable #VariableStar #BinaryStar #Binary #Star #NightSky #Astronomy

The third supermoon of 2023, and the Moon's closest approach to Earth this year, is in the sky with Saturn and Neptune for a second night as the calendar changes to the month of September. To the right of Saturn are the globular clusters M15, M2 and M30 in a vertical line across the constellation Aquarius, and Jupiter and Uranus are trailing the Moon. September 28-29 will be the fourth and final supermoon of 2023. #BlueMoonSupermoon #BlueMoon #BlueSupermoon #Supermoon2023 #Supermoon #Moon #Perigee #Astronomy

The second supermoon of 2023 is in the sky tonight with Pluto, Saturn, and Neptune, setting above the constellation Sagittarius. The bright globular clusters M2 and M15 should be visible, above the glare of the Moon and to the right of Saturn, near the constellation Aquarius. The third and closest supermoon for this year is coming on August 30. https://earthsky.org/sky-archive/july-full-moon/ #Supermoon2023 #Supermoon #Moon #Perigee #Astronomy