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If you ever forget how metal the uterus is, remember that doctors used to think this thing could traipse around the body (lemmy.today)
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Artist discovers free will.

"the same is the case with the so-called womb or matrix of women; the animal within them is desirous of procreating children, and when remaining unfruitful long beyond its proper time, gets discontented and angry, and wandering in every direction through the body, closes up the passages of the breath, and, by obstructing respiration, drives them to extremity, causing all varieties of disease." - Plato, Timaeus Picture of a womb with small little legs looking like two xenomorphs standing back to back. "A contemporary artist's depiction of the wandering womb, anthropomorphized with a reptilian tail and a set of legs and arms. It is based on descriptions dating back to ancient times."

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