Meditative and mystical circles, like the Jewish cabalists, have always sought to guard against the allure of unembodiment.

As tumor grows, color may change and appear erythemic and sore, and may even bleed if touched.

Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah—‘And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.’

Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.