The Thin Line Between Order & Chaos

The story

Sometimes, chaos can give rise to order, and between these two states of existence, a thin line of ideas separate the randomness from form.

Research area

The glymphatic brain clearance system.

Impact

We should all remember that new thoughts are formed and shifted by people’s own perceptions and preconceptions. This process is delicate and vulnerable, and chaos can break loose in everything we try to understand, if too much outside pressure is put onto the birthing of novel concepts. We must trust the process and ourselves, to let reality around and inside us reorganise by its own pace.

Image description

My image depicts the structure of the cribriform plate, a thin bony, porous tissue, that separates the olfactory bulb on the left from the nasal structures on the right, with turbinates forming cavities into which the olfactory nerve connects through the cribriform plate. The image has been taken with a scanning electron microscope at Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), Lund.

Credits

Marios Kritsilis, Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC)