Updated Brain Map

The figure from the article Updated Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 New Regions, by Carl Zimmer, is not only unhelpful, but does not convey anything meaningful other than the great quantity of regions discovered. The purpose of the article is to report on a group of scientists’ discovery and their revised mapping of the brain with new regions. The image displays a multitude of regions that are seemingly random as neither the article nor a legend explains the significance of the borders drawn on the brain. While the purpose of color coding is to highlight notable portions of the brain, many of the regions’ colors are muddied which mitigates the importance of such regions. Although supposedly important regions of the brain are tinted in green
The purpose of the article is to teach and warn people who live in areas where Chagas disease is endemic. Each step of its cycle is numbered in an organized sequence indicated by the looping arrows. At each stage, a small description of the disease t is provided, in addition to a small figure. While the titles at the top of the page indicate which part of the cycle takes place in the human and in the bug, it is reinforced by the color of the arrows in the cycle: red for the bug stages and blue for the human stages. The figure also indicates the points on the human body where the disease is likely to enter the human and leave the human, which further explains the disease’s development cycle. In addition, a figure of the bug is shown provides a visual warning about the transmitter of such disease. Lastly, the figure effectively compresses lots of information with an easily digestible design. Each stage and word block are separated with enough spacing that it does not feel cramped; the image corresponding to each stage isn’t too far from its word block; and the arrows that make up the cycle are not complex intertwining