Preparing for takeoff: Getting ready for the Olympic luge
Considered to be one of the most dangerous Olympic winter sports, luge competitors put on some serious game faces before soaring down the Sochi track.
Kalani Gordon 2 Comments Olympics, World bobsleigh, luge, nodar kumaritashvili, Russia, skeleton, Sochi, Winter Olympics
Considered to be one of the most dangerous Olympic winter sports, luge competitors put on some serious game faces before soaring down the Sochi track.
Nick Tann 1 Comment World blood vessels, body worlds, dissection, Gunther von Hagens, human body, muscles, plastinated, skeleton
Human fascination with the inner workings of our bodies spans our collective history. Luckily, with recent collaborations between the scientific and artistic communities, exhibits featuring authentic, stripped down (as in to the bone) bodies in various poses and levels of dissection have been striving to satiate our curiosity.
While the photos in this collection may be too graphic for some viewers, exhibits from the Human Body Exhibition to Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds promote the inner beauty and anatomical wonders of the human body. Some go as far as scattering assistants and med students around the show floor to answer questions, while others offer viewers a front row seat to an actual organ dissection.