DENVER - Body Worlds is back in Denver and this time the focus of the unique exhibit is the human heart.
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Body Worlds and The Story of the Heart opened Friday at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It shows how the cardiovascular system works, and how
every organ in the human body depends on the heart's ability to pump blood.
"It applies to everyone because it's about everyone. Everyone has a human body and needs to learn about it," Bridget Coughlin with the museum said.
This exhibit also allows visitors to see the bones, muscles and internal organs of the human body. Visitors can see what cancer tumors look like and
the difference between healthy lungs and a smoker's lungs.
The exhibit includes more than 200 preserved human specimens that have undergone a process called plastination.
It has healthy hearts on display and hearts that have been affected by disease. It also shows how modern medicine can help those diseased hearts keep
beating. One example shows you how a pacemaker and its wires are inserted.
"This is not Hollywood. Hollywood portrays the human body with blood and gore. This is biology. This is science," Coughlin said.
Dr. Angelina Whalley is married to the famous Gunther von Hagens who developed the plastination process that turns human bodies into the anatomical
models.
"Body Worlds is about you. It's unveiling the body interior by showing real anatomical specimens. They are beautifully and intricately dissected to
show all the arteries, the muscles, the nerves," Whalley said.
According to Whalley, all of the bodies used by Body Worlds come from donors who have usually seen an exhibit in the past. These people agree to
donate their bodies before passing so others can learn from them after their deaths.
I'm stoked to go see this... should be really cool!
:singing:rocfighter - 16-3-2010 at 10:56 AM
I saw that when it was here. It is great if your not like one lady that was physicly sicked by it. I found it fasinating.PHREERIDER - 16-3-2010 at 11:05 AM
cool! i have seen the German and Chinese. very nice ,
the German is the original with the greatest variety. both are incrediblerocfighter - 16-3-2010 at 11:21 AM
I should have checked my spelling. How imbarassing:shocked2:f0rgiv3n - 16-3-2010 at 01:51 PM
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Originally posted by rocfighter
I should have checked my spelling. How imbarassing:shocked2:
*embarrassing
:wee:Drewculous - 19-3-2010 at 08:23 AM
i get to go to my favorite pub too!
woohoo!! Pints Pub, Denver... Here i come!!
:singing::singing::singing:
mmm... live yeast, hand drawn, homemade brew.... :o
omg, i think i can taste it now lad - 19-3-2010 at 05:00 PM
According to a TV expose', the Chinese one is a knock-off of the original German one. An Asian reporter in San Fran noticed how all the bodies seemed
Asian, and noted that donating and exhibiting bodies is not exactly a part of that culture. The bodies supposedly came from a Chinese university and
all had the donation paperwork. But they went to the place in China and it's more like a garage...they questioned the donations and noted how China
executes more prisoners than any country in the world...
As for me, I can skip those kind of educational exhibits and just go out for lasagna instead! :karate:
While others may see the intricate splendor and wonder of human anatomy, I'd see only kludgy complexity and how many things can go terribly wrong!Drewculous - 20-3-2010 at 07:40 PM
...but... the beer... mmmmm rocfighter - 21-3-2010 at 04:58 AM
I like lasagna too!!
But no beer.BigMikesKites - 21-3-2010 at 05:49 AM
2 votes for the BeerDrewculous - 22-3-2010 at 06:41 AM
oh, dude... that beer was awesome... aw man, the fiance had to drag me outta that place, it was SOOOOOO good!
the food was actually really good, and afternoon shopping was made all the better by the fact i was a little toasty, lol... they even have a deal,
where you can buy a large mason jar a beer to take home, lol... turned out to be about 4 pints... so once we got home, i could unwind with some more
of the black stuff... if any of you are in denver, you have to stop by that place... so freaking awesome!!!
the art exhibit was actually very educational... They gave you a little "cell phone" type machine where you could enter in the exhibit no and get a
ton more information... just a little strange knowing you are looking at actual bodies... but really cool... if you ever have the opportunity to go i
highly recommend it!!PHREERIDER - 22-3-2010 at 07:03 AM
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Originally posted by lad
While others may see the intricate splendor and wonder of human anatomy, I'd see only kludgy complexity and how many things can go terribly wrong!
it is the perfection we exist in ,
it persist despite the conveyor belt of now
constantly bewildering the how?Drewculous - 22-3-2010 at 11:57 AM
:shocked2:
deep.....
one of the cool things about the show is how it showcased the imperfections of humanity too.... not only did it show the human form in all of its
splendor... but it showed when things go wrong... from nature's end, or our own self-destructive natures.... they had a spine with severe scoliosis,
they had a hip with hip displaysia, even a heart with a pacemaker... they had a severely damaged set of lungs, from prolonged smoking... a liver with
cirrhosis, a heart that was overly enlarged due to very high blood pressure... those are just a few examples.... they had a full body slice of an
obese man to show how fat literally drowns your internal organs... the sad part there was the man was only 50 years old when he died, and weighed
300lbs.... scary part there is i know TONS of people that are over that mark...
Human life is very fragile, yet extremely resilient... i'm constantly amazed that we all even exist right now...
cool exhibit... go see it, lol
This was my favorite... i bet i just walked around it for like 20 mins
