Ahmed Rehan Nasir is a contributor from Pakistan. With a Psych degree in hand, Rehan has a knack for picking apart anime and dissecting characters. When he isn't writing features, you'll probably find ...

As any neurologist could tell you, that old tale about how humans only use 10% of our brains is a load of bunk, but the idea continues to exert a fascination within the realms of pulp entertainment.

Rolf Degen has an interesting post on the question of how much of the brain is devoted to processing touch stimuli from the penis. The Fake Homunculus: A new book about sex depicts a beefed-up ...

Meredith White is a graduate from Texas A&M University. She writes anime feature articles when she's not reading, writing, or playing Dungeons and Dragons. There are seven homunculi, and they all bear ...

The bizarre-looking ‘homunculus’ is one of neuroscience’s most fundamental diagrams. Found in countless textbooks, it depicts a deformed constellation of body parts mapped onto a narrow strip of the ...

We all know what bodies look like from the outside. This cortical homunculus is how your brain sees your body from the inside. In the 1930s, Wilder Penfield performed surgeries on patients with ...

If there is one thing that I remember with mixed feelings from my biology classes, it is Nicolaas Hartsoeker's drawing of the homunculus from 1694, which shows a tiny man curled up inside a sperm, or ...