[Perna]

I'm going to the Body Worlds 2 exhibition at the Maryland Science Center tonight:

http://www.mdsci.org/bodyworlds/index.html

I think it's gonna be kind of gross for me (they are real human bodies in a new, special kind of preservative) but maybe it will be fascinating enough to get past that, I'm hoping :-)

[RozG]

ooh you have no idea how jealous i am...i looooove gorey things...lol

[Perna]

I want to know about the "& the Brain" part :-) http://www.mdsci.org/bodyworlds/_med...Background.pdf

I'll let you know how it is. I think it's travelling all over: http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html

[RozG]

YAY that link says it's in Manchester til June...hehe guess who's gonna be going to Manchester for a day.

ty Perna

[Perna]

Oh! No fair, you're on "4" and this one's only "2"!

[heyjoe]

sounds like it could be very educational and worthwhile

ive seen enough gore to last me a lifetime

[RozG]

heehee wonder if that means we get twice the gore

[TaintedGoth1]

Oh man that's just too cool!

Good luck!

[onlymedid]

I would be intrigued and grossed out at the same time. I think it would be so cool to see, though.

BJ

[Perna]

It was pretty good but would have helped if I'd known a little more anatomy or something. They did teach all that though but it was a lot to absorb. They had every cross section of every organ, etc. Lot on the brain, and brains where you could see a stroke had happened. Hearts with heart attacks and plastic valves inplanted. I was surprised how small the brain was. They had lungs (coal miner's next to smoker's, only slightly different, and both those next to "normal"/non-smoker's) and a whole separate room on pregnancy and fetal development. My favorite was the one of just the peripheral nerves! I could see where my shoulder problem was last summer.

I had fun because they also had a camel and horses at one point and they had three "slices" of the camel neck/head and it was in three different placements so it looked like a three-headed camel. You didn't get to it until you came around a corner and before that was a long, winding, "hallway" and there were benches and my husband and I were sitting on a bench, resting, and people were walking by and I'd say, "Beware the three-headed camel!" They'd all laugh because they had no clue and then they'd get ready to go around the corner and they'd slow and try to "peek" around, LOL. They had a filly horse and a colt too; apparently they're like humans?

My husband wasn't interested and it got to be a bit boring to me, similar stuff over and over so it only took us half an hour (instead of two hours) to go through, my sister-in-law was interested and looking at it all and only took her an hour to go through.

I looked at lungs (since I have asthma) and adrenal glands (since I have an incidentaloma) and intestines, etc. but some of the whole males were startling in their "everything there" state :-) when you weren't quite expecting that. And the sexual organs were all talked about at the end but I didn't have a whole lot of interest in fibroid tumors, but I looked at ovarian cysts and couldn't see/tell.

I think you have to be really interested in the first place to enjoy it. It wasn't very gross though except in spots. It starts easy with skeletons and just works from the top down basically