Blog #2

Hallo and good evening!

The article about Die Menschenmacshine was long and tedious to me...especially considering it took about 20-30 minutes just to print the whole thing. It was kind of interesting to me that the author was going to be looking at how the connotation of the word was relating to the subject, but at the same time, basically kept repeating the same information. I also found it interesting that the author mentioned Brave New World by Huxley as being part of a fear of reproduction, when I always thought of Huxley's book to be more about sex and future technologies. While the book does have an interesting take on how people will be cloned and created it seemed to focus more on the technologies in the world and how people acted towards one another not just the clones. The article also talked about how men made these machines...you can't tell me a woman did not come up with any of these ideas? It might be an interesting article, who knows, we only had to read the intro.

The second article about the German Bodies I found extremely interesting. I went to Vegas in May with a friend and we visited the Bodies Experience created by Beijing University and got to actually see everything this article is discussing. The bodies were not gross or creepy in any way and I can't even begin to tell how much I learned about human bodies from just spending 45 minutes in this fabulous exhibit. I know that sounds kinda gross, because these once were human beings, but they donate their bodies to science, and chose this. I also thought this article was interesting talking about the history of inspecting bodies after death. It was nice to have a background to modern autopsies.