Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

Eug Wanker · Oct 25, 2005, 12:20 PM

I guess the dead don't get to upgrade their OSes very often though...

Diggory Laycock · Oct 25, 2005, 01:13 PM

Ah, Gunther von Hagens - He did a post mortem / dissection of a human on UK TV recently (last year?) It was fascinating.

At one point he showed how the muscles in the arm/hand work by pulling certain muscles high in the arm, and the cadaver's hand clenched. (The skin had been peeled off like a big suit.) Very eerie.

nonhuman · Oct 25, 2005, 01:15 PM

I went and saw his exhibit when it was in LA. Really damned cool, although it seemed like there weren't nearly as many piece as in the original show in Germany.

Eug Wanker · Oct 25, 2005, 02:29 PM

Yeah, the exhibit was pretty big, but I wished it was bigger. They did have a whole dissected camel there though, and they had plasticized human organs and slices of limbs for the public to handle.

rickey939 · Oct 25, 2005, 03:27 PM

They should have dissected the basketball as well.

nonhuman · Oct 25, 2005, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

Yeah, the exhibit was pretty big, but I wished it was bigger. They did have a whole dissected camel there though, and they had plasticized human organs and slices of limbs for the public to handle.

Camel? I don't think they had the camel at the exhibit I was at.

There was a horse though.

Demonhood · Oct 25, 2005, 04:26 PM

i saw the same one in LA that you saw nonhuman. no camel. just the couple on the horse.

Tyler McAdams · Oct 25, 2005, 04:33 PM

I think a certain pov is needed for these pictures.

ghporter · Oct 25, 2005, 04:36 PM

They aren't "corpses," they're "cadavers." A corpse is just a body, while a cadaver is a body that has been donated for science and/or research.

And I'm in an anatomy class right now, and boy are those specimens illuminating!

The Godfather · Oct 25, 2005, 06:07 PM

The "Bodies" Exhibition is in Tampa Bay this year. I will check it out in mid November

Eug Wanker · 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

They aren't "corpses," they're "cadavers." A corpse is just a body, while a cadaver is a body that has been donated for science and/or research.

And I'm in an anatomy class right now, and boy are those specimens illuminating!

Originally Posted by Demonhood

i saw the same one in LA that you saw nonhuman. no camel. just the couple on the horse.

The video they showed while we were lining up had the horse, but alas, we didn't get to see the horse "live".

P.S. My favourite part of the show was seeing the look on the kids' faces when they got to play with the human organs and slices.

olePigeon · Oct 25, 2005, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

*snip*

Eug, with that picture in your sig you should use the Bush quote about People and Fish coexisting peacefully.

ghporter · Oct 25, 2005, 07:12 PM

Eug, you're of course 100% right, but while is no difference quantitatively (as per the definition you posted), I think there's a qualitative difference. And of course being in a situation where a bunch of rather young people are being introduced to human remains I am also being reminded that there's a certain amount of extra respect due those remains. Not that any corpse should be treated without that respect, but donated remains tend to get relatively poor treatment in academic settings, perhaps because students want to dehumanize them?

Oh, and all of the specimens in the exhibition are much easier to deal with than the kind of specimens I see-the exhibition shows things in "natural color" while the specimens I see are pretty yucky. A preserved cadaver is typically brown, not red. Oh, and don't forget that wonderful smell! I vowed to wear a mask (scented, of course) right after our first lab disecting cats. WHEW!

JoshuaZ · Oct 25, 2005, 07:16 PM

Typing of the Dead.