Check Out My Gallbladder

The hubby and I just got back from Science World in Vancouver where we went to visit the Bodyworlds 3 Show. Wowee wow wow wow! That has got to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Even though I took Biology in both 11th and 12th grade, I am not really partial to the anatomical sciences, being a social sciences type of gal. My husband will walk around the house talking about stuff, using big science type words (he really enjoyed science in school) while I'm all "Yah so there was this thing on the back of his thing." This show was one of the most impressive things I have been able to witness and was actually really worth the $25 per ticket to see. For anyone that may not have heard about Bodyworlds, it is a travelling show (actually I thing there are five different touring shows) that feature bodies and body parts of actual human beings who upon their death have donated their bodies to be put through a plastination process that allows them to be displayed. The process was invented by Gunther von Hagens in 1977 and allows for display outside of large containers and without storing in formaldehyde. I was able to get right up next to a human body whose skin had been stripped away and look at every minute detail. If you are in Vancouver or are ever anywhere where a Bodyworlds display is being shown, I highly recommend seeing it. I could describe it for hours, but it really must be seen. Especially the comparison of the smokers lung to the healthy lung. Made me so happy that I had quit smoking a few years back.

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Another thing I saw today that was totally neat but kind of weird was the way our local stadium BC Place looks now that its domed roof has been collapsed. The roof is made of Teflon and is kept inflated by a complicated air system that keeps the air pressure perfectly balanced to ensure that the dome stays inflated. Yesterday a tear happened in a panel of the roof and the roof was collapsed. It will be a few weeks until the roof is repaired, and in the meantime it looks so weird driving by and not seeing the familiar rise of the dome above its concrete base.

The dome as it normally looks, with the tear, and while it was being deflated.

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Now that I am comfortably home I have somehow become enthralled watching Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs make algae turn an angry red and squeezing a dogs anal gland. Damn Discovery Channel, sucks me in everytime.