This infographic highlights the challenges of American airmen early in the Daylight Strategic Bombing campaign in Europe during the second World War. Research of 8th Army Air Force records paints a slightly different narrative from what has become the typical story of the air war over Europe. While many B-17 heavy bombers were indeed shot down, a significant number of losses were from planes that returned from these missions, shot up enough that they had to be written off. The Memphis Belle was the first B-17 Flying Fortress to complete its tour of duty of 25 missions. After years of neglect due to lack of funding, the Memphis Belle was restored and unveiled to the public on the 75th anniversiary of acheiving this milestone, on May 19th, 2018 at the National Museum of the US Air Force.

As part of scientific outreach.... and just plain fun!.... we uploaded a 3D interactive, and annotated, model of the brain cavity, cranial nerves, vasculature, and balance/hearing organs of the big boy, Tyrannosaurus rex. Best part? You can download the 3D model for free, and print it out on any 3D printer. How cool is that? This specimen is from the American Museum of Narural History (AMNH 5117), which we had on loan almost a decade ago.

Additionally, you can learn more than you ever wanted to know about Tyrannosaurid neuroanatomy and paratympanic sinuses in the braincase from the technical paper we published nearly 10 years ago. Here's the citable, download via the button below:

Witmer, L. M. and R. C. Ridgely. 2009. New insights into the brain, braincase, and ear region of tyrannosaurs, with implications for sensory organization and behavior. Anatomical Record 292:1266–1296.

This is a snippet of a larger project on aquarium maintenance. There's not that much chemistry to worry about in freshwater aquaria, so why scare people away with the little bit of chemistry that's worth knowing? A little cartooning keeps it fun, while driving home the need for water changes to flush out the nitrates.

I work in Ohio University's Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. In this capacity, I’ve generated many learning and teaching aids over the years showing off human anatomy in an interactive format. Unlike many anatomical models that simply are “models”, I use CT scanning and X-ray contrast-enhancing techniques to produce 100% accurate assets. One of these assests that has proven very popular is a human skull model. The Sketchfab button below will take you to an "exploding" version of this skull which you can interact with.

It's a great privilege to work on some of the most famous beasts that ever walked the earth, namely Tyrannosaurs. It’s humbling when museums ask you to help flesh out their exhibits on these beasts. Beasts that started out very small as babies. Could we help the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, MT show what a baby Tyrannosaur (nicknamed, "Chomper") might have looked like based on some very scrappy fossil evidence?

We could try!

We took a model of another juvenile tyrannosaur, I tweaked it to match a baby Tarbosaurus that we had recently published on, and then I digitally sculpted the other parts we needed and finally, we digitally inserted the actual fossils. A 3D print of our file was done here at Ohio University's Innovation Center, which was sent off to the Museum of the Rockies where it was painted and put on display in an exhibit on Tyrannosaur growth.