Imagine you donate your body to science and the guy says, "Great, here's my vision. We'll have you balancing in the splits on two balls, with one hand on a third ball and your other hand holding your internal organs aloft. Oh yeah, and we'll have your back flayed open."That, my friends, was exactly what I saw on Sunday night at the California Science Center's "Bodyworlds 3" exhibit. It is the most amazing scientific exhibit I have ever seen. They plastinate a bunch of bodies that have been donated to science (with the donor's full understanding and consent of how they will be used), and then carefully arrange them so that we live ones can see all the amazing structures of the human body. It is incredible, especially for a freak like me who likes to take everything apart and see how it works. Besides the many, many humans in various poses (lots of acrobatic ones, so you can see how muscles work), there's also a plastinated GIRAFFE. And the blood vessel system of a lamb that looks like some spooky piece of art. I left with a new appreciation of how amazing the body is, and frankly, a new appreciation of all life.
This one's over, but I see that there's a "Bodyworlds 4" already traveling through Europe. Do not miss it. It may not be cheep, but when will you ever get a chance to see something like this again?
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awesome exhibit! the babies freiked me out a little, and i was also left REALLY wanting to know more about the subjects themselves..who were they? what were their lives like? did you notice the one guy with the gold tooth? c'mon, you know there's gotta be a story there.
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