body worlds
I got the chance to go and see body worlds this last weekend in Dallas. The exhibition will be at the Museum of Nature and Science until May 28, 2007. If you get a chance to go, I highly recommend it. Just make sure and buy your tickets online, it’s attracting quite a crowd. We had to wait an hour and a half for our time slot.
Using a process called plastination all of the water and fat is removed and replaced by a polymer. This can be done on a single organ or an entire human body(or even a horse as in one display).
The result is both beautiful and educational. The human body is an amazing piece of machinery when it is given proper care. Seeing side by side the difference between the lungs of a smoker and a non-smoker, the liver of a drinker and non-drinker, what a brain hemorrhage looks like, etc is scary. Not that I do a horrible job of taking care of my body, but if anything this has strengthened my desire to take care of my body with both exercise and diet. I think I’ll end this here and head to the gym now.
