The ‘I Had Potential’ Shirt: A Physics Diagram That Argues With Its Own Slogan
On a white shirt, the words I HAD POTENTIAL sit in capital letters above a curved white ramp that descends from left to right. At the upper left ledge, a dashed empty circle marks where a ball once rested. At the lower right flat ledge, a solid white ball sits still. The ramp is not […]
The ‘meh.’ Shirt: Why a Dismissive Word Is Printed So Loudly
On a dark shirt, centered, in very small lowercase letters, the word appears: meh. No animal. No flag. No slogan about coffee, introversion, or Monday. Just three letters and a period, set small enough that a reader has to lean in to confirm what they saw. The native garment preview for the Meh Funny Sarcastic […]
Rabies from vampire bats in Amazonian Peru: how Desmodus rotundus bites, lyssavirus neuroinvasion, and post-exposure prophylaxis timing decide who survives
Por Dra. Luz Mendoza — BioUnalm En el Perú amazónico, la pregunta que salva vidas no es «¿me mordió un perro?». Es «¿tuve contacto con un murciélago, y empecé la profilaxis post-exposición a tiempo?». En las Américas, donde la rabia transmitida por perros está mayormente controlada, los murciélagos hematófagos son ahora la principal fuente de […]
The ‘meh.’ Shirt: Why a Dismissive Word Is Printed So Loudly
On a dark shirt, in large bold white lowercase letters, the word meh. appears. That is the whole design. No illustration, no secondary slogan, no animal mascot. The period is there, and it matters: it turns a shrug into a full stop. The typography is not whispering. It is the visual equivalent of someone saying […]
The Composition Notebook Shirt: A Costume That Argues With Itself
Look at the rectangle first. On the shirt, a black-and-white speckled field sits inside a dark binding strip on the left, and a white ruled label is headed COMPOSITION. Inside that label, an outlined ghost and an outlined pumpkin. The whole thing is printed flat on fabric. It is not a notebook. It is a […]
The Periodic Table Joke That Doesn’t Spell What It Says
I WEAR THIS SHIRT PERIODICALLY. Four tiles, drawn in the visual grammar of the periodic table: 53 I, 74 W, 22 Ti, 16 S. The symbols read I, W, Ti, S. The sentence reads I wear this shirt periodically. Those are not the same string, and the gap between them is the whole joke. This […]
The Smiling Root Vegetables: What ‘Let’s Root For Each Other’ Actually Asks of Us
Four root vegetables smile up from the soil. A carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion, each with its taproot or bulb visible below the surface, arranged in a loose cluster. Around them, in capital letters, the shirt reads: LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW. The design is a diagram […]
The Silly Goose Mugshot: What a Bird in an Orange Jumpsuit Says About Institutional Authority
GOT TOO SILLY. The words sit above a white goose-like bird, its neck extended in what could be alarm or indifference, wearing an orange prison uniform and holding a black mugshot board. The bird stares out at the viewer with the flat affect of someone who has been processed, photographed, and is now waiting for […]
The Caution Triangle as a Boundary: What the ‘Not Friendly Do Not Touch’ Shirt Actually Says
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. On the front of the shirt, the words NOT FRIENDLY and DO NOT TOUCH are set in the blocky, condensed lettering of a hazard placard. Above or beside them sits a yellow caution triangle, and inside or alongside it, a hand with a diagonal […]
Cómo se subfinancia la investigación de enfermedades tropicales: evidencia, brechas y decisiones para el Perú
El subfinanciamiento de la investigación en enfermedades tropicales: qué es y por qué importa en el Perú La investigación en enfermedades tropicales es el conjunto de estudios clínicos, epidemiológicos, moleculares y de implementación que buscan entender, prevenir y tratar enfermedades que afectan desproporcionadamente a poblaciones en zonas tropicales y subtropicales. En el Perú, esto incluye […]