Computer scientist Larry Smarr, the subject of an Atlantic profile by Mark Bowden, has been meticulously measuring his every bodily function. Here, he shows off his imaging technology -- and the inside of his own colon.
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Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, a former senior editor at The Atlantic, is now a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine.