mackenzie by Mackenzie LaPage https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr Made with good vibes en-us 2017-02-10 18:54:01 UTC 2026-03-08 23:45:13 UTC hello@padlet.com stiff mlapage1 https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/153829840 The forty heads are from people who have died in the past few days and, as such, still look very much the way they looked while those people were alive.  (2p)]]> 2017-02-14 18:47:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/153829840 stiff mlapage1 https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/153831228 its the reason most of us prefer a pork chop to a slice of whole suckling pigs. It's the reason we say "pork" and "Beef" instead of "pig" and "cow".(3p)]]> 2017-02-14 18:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/153831228 stiff mlapage1 https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/153832231 They are also very short, these stumps.... These heads appear to have been lopped off just below the chin, as though the cadaver had been wearing a turtleneck and the decapitator hadn't wished to damage the fabric (2p)]]> 2017-02-14 18:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/153832231 The Secret Lives of Cadavers mlapage1 https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/153837988 In most cases, the family must make arrangements with a funeral director to transport the body and death certificate to the donation facility, where the remains are tested for infectious diseases, such as hepatitis and HIV/AIDS, before embalming.]]> 2017-02-14 19:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/153837988 Lost UCLA cadavers' final chapter mlapage1 https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/153841200 Yoshikawa told the lawyers her mother's story: She grew up poor during the Great Depression, struggled in school with learning problems, was widowed two weeks before her only child was born and cleaned houses and cared for others' children to raise her daughter and put her through college.

She decided before she died in 2002 to donate her body to the university. "She liked to think she'd help educate some young doctor," recalled Yoshikawa, a retired third-grade teacher who graduated from UC Berkeley. Her stepfather also bequeathed his body to UCLA when he died in 2000.

]]> 2017-02-14 19:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/153841200 How Cadavers Made Your Car Safer mlapage1 https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/154120367  Cadavers have been essential to making driving safer since the 1930 when researchers at Wayne State University threw a body down an elevator shaft  to determine the forces it could endure. Every part of a car touching on safety — from steering columns and laminated windshields to side-impact air bags — drew from tests with cadavers to ensure they work.]]> 2017-02-15 18:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/154120367 How Cadavers Made Your Car Safer mlapage1 https://padlet.com/mlapage1/7emxoaoytgxr/wish/154121811 And as far as the denial goes, it’s true: Automakers don’t have the medical resources that cadaver tests require.

But universities do. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration funds scores of cadaver tests annually; many of those schools also receive grants from automakers. The data they gather can be shared widely.

That’s the case with Ford’s inflatable seat belts, an idea Ford has tested for several years. The 2011 Explorer will be the first vehicle to offer the technology, and Ford has made the belts a highlight of the safety features offered to compete against other family haulers.

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The “waiting room” is down the hall. There, funeral directors from across Illinois deliver bodies through the back door to a refrigerator filled with embalmed cadavers. The AGA usually gets one or two bodies a day.


In another even larger room, hundreds of cadavers rest on metal shelving units, ready for delivery

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 By the time it’s finished, it could last up to six years without decay. The face and hands are wrapped in black plastic to prevent them from drying, an eerie sight for medical students on their first day in the lab.


An embalmed person loses his or her identity. Donations are anonymous, and students won’t know who a cadaver was. The face is swollen, the head is shaved, and depending on the cocktail of chemicals and dyes pumped into it, the flesh turns yellow, green, red, or gray. The most important difference is inside.

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