Saturday, January 13, 2007

academic priorities

Today I discovered the website of the University of Wisconsin's Brain Museum. It has the specimens of brains from over 150 different species, with photographs of whole specimens and cross sections. This got me to thinking ; are there any museums devoted to other strictly to one organ. I checked for spleen, heart, lungs, stomach, intestine, kidney, liver, skin, penis and vagina. Wouldn't you know it, there's a penis museum in iceland, a traveling vulva museum (no specimens of vulvas but lots of art) and a liver museum in Saudi Arabia. There are certainly lots of medical museums and general museums that contain preserved specimens of each of the organs from many species, but when it came down to it people only put together specific museums for the organs which enable us to have sex, think about sex, filter the alcohol that facilitates getting sex because we would otherwise overthink it, and the brain.

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