Humans Inside Out

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Everybody's got a body, but how much do we really understand about them?

Unless we're medical professionals, we probably don't have a very detailed idea about what goes on inside us every day. Whether your approach to the subject is serious or silly, scientific or merely curious, Seattle is now offering at leat two ways to get a peek at all the fascinating pieces and processes that make up our physical selves.

BODIES...The Exhibition features real human bodies preserved in a process that allows them to be displayed in remarkable ways. Stripped of their skin and engaged in everyday activities, the bodies are dissected to show musculature, organs, and systems that are usually hidden from view. Whether of a man kicking a soccer ball or the isolated circulatory system, each display provides a visceral, fascinating, and often quite beautiful look at the human animal. This exhibit can be a wonderful educational tool, a catalyst for discussions with your kids about death, disease, and habits that affect their health like smoking. It can also be pretty intense. Located across the street from the Convention Center downtown, the exhibit is open every day through April first and you can purchase tickets either with or without an audio tour.

If you laugh at farts or hold family contests to see who can recite the ABC's while belching, then Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body might be more your style. Starting on January 27th, the Pacific Science Center will host this bodily fluid-filled exhibit based on the popular Grossology books by science author Sylvia Branzei. The exhibit features everything from a walk-in tour of the human nose to a burp machine and is intensely silly as well as informative. It runs through May 6th and admission includes entry to all the regular Science Center exhibits.

With such detailed, extensive, and distinct ways to find out about what happens beneath (and on) our skin, 2007 is certainly the best year ever to own a body in Seattle.

BODIES...The Exhibition
800 Pike St., Seattle
Through April 1, 2007
Tickets $18.00-$32.50
www.bodiestheexhibition.com

Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body
Pacific Science Center @ The Seattle Center
January 27-May 6, 2007
Tickets $7-15
www.pacsi.org/grossology

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