Wellcome Trust employee Zoe Middleton poses for the media by a work entitled 'My Soul' by artist Katherine Dawson, that is a laser etched in lead crystal glass of the artist's own MRI scan, at an exhibition call 'Brains -The Mind as Matter' at the Wellcome Collection in London, Tuesday, March, 27, 2012. The free exhibition is open to the public from March 29- June 17. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Wellcome Trust employee Zoe Middleton poses for the media by a work entitled 'My Soul' by artist Katherine Dawson, that is a laser etched in lead crystal glass of the artist's own MRI scan, at an exhibition call 'Brains -The Mind as Matter' at the Wellcome Collection in London, Tuesday, March, 27, 2012. The free exhibition is open to the public from March 29- June 17. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Wellcome Trust employee Zoe Middleton poses for the media by a work entitled 'My Soul' by artist Katherine Dawson, that is a laser etched in lead crystal glass of the artist's own MRI scan, at an exhibition call 'Brains -The Mind as Matter' at the Wellcome Collection in London, Tuesday, March, 27, 2012. The free exhibition is open to the public from March 29- June 17. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Two slices of Albert Einstein's brain are seen at an exhibition call 'Brains -The Mind as Matter' at the Wellcome Collection in London, Tuesday, March, 27, 2012. The brain matter was prepared by Dr Thomas Harvey who was working at the hospital where Einstein died in 1955. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
LONDON (AP) ? A new exhibition in London is putting the brain under a microscope ? literally.
"Brains: The Mind as Matter" asks not what brains have done for us but what, in the name of science, we have done to brains.
The brain has fascinated and baffled scientists for centuries. The exhibition, which opens Thursday at the Wellcome Collection, features mummified, desiccated, galvanized and pickled brains as it charts humanity's sometimes misguided attempts at scientific understanding.
Exhibits range from slices of Albert Einstein's brain to neurosurgery tools and artworks inspired by the contents of our skulls.
Curator Marius Kwint said Tuesday that it aims to show how, despite scientific advances, the brain remains "a complex and inscrutable substance."
___
Online: http://www.wellcomecollection.org
Associated Presslebron james engaged auld lang syne end of the world 2012 pink martini times square 2012 predictions new years eve ball drop
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.