The Green Man June 30, 2003

A fart in the name of science.

Interested in all those gross bodily functions, farting, belching, scabs, etc, well kids are. (So are scientists who are really fascinated in the things that most people grow out of being interested in)

To promote science an exhibition in London's Science Museum opened that addresses these base interests. Intrepid visitors can pump mechanical stomachs to make them vomit or belch, or climb a skin wall on scabs, spots and warts, even sample the aromas of the body all in the name of science.

Based on the introductory science books by Sylvia Branzei of Whale Gulch School in northern California it exploits a childs natural interest in the body.

Anyone anally fixated is bound to enjoy constructing a cacophony of artificial farts. "A tightened anus creates a higher-pitched toot," explains the text helpfully.

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