Jeff Egnaczyk frets.

Seven altogether; goes before the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal on July 29 for a variance.

Via John Keith.

From Physics to Pheromones:
An Adult Science Fair

Monday, March 3, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Museum of Science, Boston

La Diabla says good bye to Bradford Washburn, who built the Museum of Science:

... Thank you for creating my all-time favorite place to be in this town. I think I'll spend an afternoon in your Theatre of Electricity, under the electric glow of your Van Der Graff generator this weekend.

Dave Copeland went to the Body Worlds exhibit at the MoS, explains why he wouldn't go again:

... Some of the full figured models -- particularly the ones where hair and fingernails were preserved or where the person's facial features were still readily identifiable -- were disturbing. To me, at least. Again, I'm squeamish.

But the biggest bother to me is the display told nothing about who these people were before they were museum exhibits. Perhaps its the journalist in me who is a bit more interested in people's stories than their spleens. ...

Earlier:
Defending the dead bodies at the Museum of Science.

Beth describes her epiphany while at the Museum of Science plasticized-body show.

Beth rises to the defense of Bodyworlds, that exhibit at the Museum of Science consisting of "plastinated" bodies, against what she calls the self-appointed morality police:

... if there's one thing I cannot stand, it's when people see something that upsets them and then decide that since it upsets them, it should not be seen by anyone else. They decide that they, and their sensitivities, rule the world--and others should be prevented from having an experience because they found it unpleasant.

These people--the cadavers involved--are serving a purpose after death. They are teaching others about the wonder and beauty and amazing machine that is their body. People volunteering themselves for such study--whether as cadavers or living surgical subjects in the early days of the study of anatomy--are doing a service to the world, and, I think, to themselves. ...

Stop Bodyworlds is a site trying to get the Museum of Science to shut down its exhibit of "plastinated" dead people.

Via Geoff Edgers.