Natural Lines of Fracture

Written and Illustrated by Oanh Luc
Edited by Alex Ford and Deanna Canizzaro

Some inspirations:

• Title: B. F. Skinner (1935) in The Generic Nature of the Concepts of Stimulus and Response.
• Thread (pg 2): Top: An ode to our laboratory friends. Left: Cardiac action potential. Middle: Graphs of platelet aggregation (e.g., Michael Holinstat lab in Pharmacology). Right: Ionic current trace. Bottom left: Cumulative records for fixed ratio and fixed interval schedules of reinforcement.
• ‘the most nonsensical of All…’ (pg 4): Albert Einstein wrote in 1936, “The very fact that the totality of our sense experiences is such that by means of thinking (operations with concepts, and the creation and use of definite functional relations between them, and the coordination of sense experiences to these concepts) it can be put in order, this fact is one which leaves us in awe, but which we shall never understand. One may say ‘the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.’”
• Bottom left panel (pg 4): Dose-response curve

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