After the run, a significant reduction in disc height was found with the runners imaged seated upright and leaning forward and backward.
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The runner-up image is the cerebellum of a rat's brain by Thomas Deerinck, from the University of California in San Diego, USA.
A fine example of a mutually beneficial interaction, as we have already seen in a runner-up image, can also be found in this image of Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) poised on top of a Lycaenidae caterpillar (Additional file 1).
Alan Sillitoe's classic 1950s novels Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner perfectly exemplify this image of a rugged, dogged, cussed – but also resilient – masculinity.
Cyberpunk, in the popular consciousness, conjures a glut of dissociated images: Blade Runner's slummy urban landscape, hackers in sunglasses, Japanese cyborgs, grubby tech, digital intoxication, Keanu Reeves as Johnny Mnemonic.
The fresh figure of speech racing through the lingo of the edge-cutting calls up the image of a runner straining ahead, the tilt of the body throwing weight forward to aid acceleration.
Also there is Lee Clow, who created the Energizer bunny (which became so famous that it was spoofed in other advertisements) and a series of ads for Apple, including the "1984" commercial with an Orwellian image of a runner smashing a big screen and the "Think Different" ads.
Top Image Credit: Forest Runner.
His pictures were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and his single image won a runner-up award.
