Via MetaFilter comes a link to a story in Monday’s Der Spiegel which claims that the man behind the popular-but-creepy Body Worlds exhibit of plastinated human bodies, Dr. Gunther von Hagens, plans to sell horizontal cross-section slices of plastinated bodies to the general public. Von Hagens has sold bodies and body parts to medical schools and other accredited academic institutions in the past, but never to the public.
But before you start making plans for your next backyard barbecue, Dr. von Hagens has released a statement saying that the Spiegel story is false. He claims he was merely speculating publicly about the feasibility of such an enterprise, limiting sales to "qualified individuals", not announcing any actual plans.
Looks like you’ll have to place your orders with ManBeef.com (yes, surprisngly, that link has NOT been turned into a gay porn site even after all these years).
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT.
Since you cannot click a [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and [...]
Thanks to Shelley for alerting me that last night’s edition of the local TV newsmagzine “Chronicle” featured Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, whom I blogged about recently in conjunction with the various atheist billboard campaigns around the country. I was busy helping Charlotte do her homework, so I didn’t watch the show, but WCVB’s [...]
