meisa's lagoon

yesterday i went to the museum of science and industry. what a cool place!! everyone should go. it rekindled my love for science which has slowly been drained out of me throughout the course of my graduate work. but when i saw that giant periodic table with small vials containing all the elements, my eyes just lit up. i was comletely engrossed and had to read all 76 entries (older version, only had 104 elements and they didn't do anything on the lanthanides or actinides). they also had a chick hatchery and all these fun interactive quizzes and games. it was awesome. what a cool job that must be to design exhibits there.
i was really only grossed out by one of the exhibits. i've most recently gotten over my repulsion of small children and decided that, yes, maybe i would have a baby someday. they are too cute not to have. that is, until you see what they look like growing inside you. they had an exhibit of 41 fetuses (fetii?) ranging from immediately after conception to almost born. at first i just thought they were rubber copies of what a fetus would look like, but no. they were real, and they were disgusting. like some sort of alien being or parasite growing inside a host. blagh.