Tonight, Austin and I went to the Science Center in Cleveland to see a very unusal exhibit called Body Worlds 2. I was not allowed to take pictures inside the building, so the only picture I got was of Austin at the parking garage entrance.
Austin has shown a lot of interest in the body and anatomy. This was a perfect exhibit for him to see first hand real human body parts. It sounds a little creepy, but it quickly became a fairly "clinical" learning time, with the human element pushed way in the background.
They used a process called "plastination" that preserved the body tissue in perfect condition, size, shape, and color. There were examples of healthy lungs, smoker's lungs, and a coal miner's lungs. Very interesting to see the good, bad, and worst examples. We could see the skeletal system, the muscular system, digestive system, you name it. Austin has been spending a lot of time looking at "body books" and so he actually knew right away what many of the things were as we looked at them.
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Austin must be a learner, like his dad.
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