Bench Press

I’ve posted before on plush particles, plush organs, knitted dissections, and even plush microbes. It seems in the math/science world, there’s always some creative soul who wants to cute-ify subjects of study.

Well, that set is joined by the latest plush craze… plush… statistical distributions? (HT: Flowing Data). Less stuffed-animal-like per se than say a pillow, but the Etsy store Nausicaa Distribution is selling normal distribution shaped pillows:

If the normal distribution isn’t your thing, how about some of its friends (like t, chi-square, log-normal, uniform, weibull, cauchy, poisson, gumbel, or erlang)?

And not to mention a wide range of statistical-relevant material:

If you’re interested, check out Nausicaa Distribution’s Etsy website!

(Image credit: all from Nausicaa Distribution’s Etsy site)

My talented girlfriend is both a science aficionado (currently a med student) and an avid knitter. So when she showed me the science-inspired knitting creations of one Etsy user CraftyHedgehog, I knew I just had to blog about it:

After all, who wouldn’t want knitted replicas of their favorite dissection specimens? And, the creative Ms. CraftyHedgeHog has taken her art a step beyond – behold, a knitted dissection of an Easter Bunny:

The fetal pig is 100% wool. The frog is made from a silk/wool blend with the organs made from 100% wool (and yes, that’s a real aluminum tray – don’t worry, Ms. CraftyHedgeHog assures us that they’re unused). The rat is hand-knit from an acrylic mohair, also with 100% wool organs. The Easter Bunny is made from soft nylon yarn and the insides are made from 100% wool (for the eggs) and the plastic grass used to line Easter baskets.

You can buy the specimens and learn more from CraftyHedgeHog’s Etsy page!

(Image credits – CraftyHedgeHog’s Etsy page)