Chance Meeting at a Dissecting Table

Excerpt from a SLATE article about a book of old photographs of med students posing with cadavers:

The images, which were taken at medical schools across the country, generally display groups of student dissectors posing with their cadavers. At times, the students—who are mostly male but occasionally female—are actively dissecting. Not surprisingly, many of the cadavers look less like human beings than pieces of meat.

But in other images, especially those involving the skeletons that students used to help identify the bones and other landmarks in their cadavers, the dead are in unnatural positions, either by themselves or with students. A cadaver smokes a pipe; skeletons play cards; skeletons hug their dissectors; skeletons are even propped up to appear as though they are dissecting sleeping students...

Be sure to check out the accompanying slideshow. (Spooky!)

Speaking of death, have you heard about this swine flu thing? Parents, please look after your little ones...


And finally...

Shittiest Media Job Listing Ever. Sign of the times, eh?

[Frowny faces]