If you are in Las Vegas...

[Coreshot]

Tara and I were recently in LV for a short vacation, and happened upon this exhibit at the Tropicana.

http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/bodies.html

Very cool, very educational. They have taken actual human bodies, and preserved them with polymers injected into the muscle and other tissue. They have every system in the body in stand-alone displays, everything from veins and arteries to the reproductive system. At first, I wasn't sure if I wanted to see it, but Tara really digs this stuff, so I went along. By far the coolest experience we had while we were there.

I think my favorite part was the complete, head to toe, human skin, complete with fingerprints and facial features.

If you are in LV, I highly recommend checking this one out. It's really not gross or anything, it's set up more like you would expect a medical school display to be like.

 

[Unimog]

X2. I took my wife and kids to this one in Miami. I went to one that was even better last year in Denver. It is called Body Worlds (www.bodyworlds.com). They let you handle some plasticized parts and the display was a little nicer. It is playing now in Chicago, Dallas, and Phoenix. Simply fascinating.

 

[BroncoMama]

I've heard great things about it. Some friends have seen it and said it was really amazing and not gross like one would initially think.

 

[Hickey]

I really want to go see this. They were talking about it on Opie & Anthony and it sounds fascinating. They kept asking where the bodies came from, and the reps kept dodging the question.

 

[Coreshot]

I really want to go see this. They were talking about it on Opie & Anthony and it sounds fascinating. They kept asking where the bodies came from, and the reps kept dodging the question.

To me, they mostly looked Asian. They are completely skinned, but they have the eyes, eyebrows, lips and soforth, so you kinda get a vision of what they looked like.

 

[Hickey]

Yeah, they said that the donor bodies mostly came from China.