Standard Exterior Eyebrows

Short Version:
Public transit takes us to see bodies

Long Version:
A quick visit to the chiropractor saw several vertebrae and a rib clicked back into place,

and then SeaBus and SkyTrain took us to ScienceWorld, which was very cool. Interactive stuff everywhere, combining fun with learning. Too much cool stuff to list, but highlights included the kalliroscope, the laser harp, and the oscillation visualisor. And the Body Worlds exhibition, which was the primary reason for our visit.

Brainchild of a Germanic doctor named Gunther, Body Worlds showcases human bodies which have been plastinated, which essentially means that the fluids are replaced with polymers, suffusing and preserving the skin, muscle, and fleshy bits.

Networks of blood vessels are made visible by pumping plastics through them and then stripping away the surrounding tissue - items we saw which had been treated in this way included a lamb, and a rooster.

Most of the display items, though, were human.

Lots of people parts, from joints to thinly-sliced cross-sections of partial or entire bodies, and lots of whole people, each of whom had been wholly or partially flayed and/or cut up and posed and exposed in various ways to highlight different elements of the human body and its workings. Drawer man was a particular highlight,

as were figure-skating couple, yoga woman, and the slices of constipated woman and obese man. The human body really is quite amazing, as is the ability to preserve and display bodies in such an incredible way.

There were a few presentation idiosyncracies, including the fact that while the male bodies had skinless genitalia, the rudebits of the female bodies still had skin. The female bodies also had nipples attached, which looked vaguely incongruous perched atop skinless lumps of fatty tissue. The big highlight in this respect, though, was the eyebrows; Many of the flayed faces, skinless and raw, had standard exterior eyebrows attached. A big help in creating facial expressions, for sure, but slightly weird once you'd noticed their presence.

And then it was SkyTrain and SeaBus,

and Corn Nuts, and then bowls of wine with dinner, and a french fry fight which left me bleeding but unbowed.