Comments on: The Remains of Doctor Bass http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass A collection of Damn Interesting things Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:31:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tink http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass#comment-25455 Tink Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:13:22 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-25455 [quote]Tarlev said: "Thank you Allan, for this DI! feast of science for All Hallows Eve! For more info about true crime forensics in use, check out the Crime Library.com. Great stuff if your looking for gore with an educated twist. Look up your “favorite” criminal, past or present and find details of their crimes and how the cases were solved. (I especialy enjoyed the criminal study of the canibal, Hannibal Lector, and the beasty boys from whome his story was drawn. The psychology of the character is another fascinating read also). Happy Halloween, wishing you all unpleasant dreams and a lot of screams this spooky night. ;-) (loljk)"[/quote] This sounds eerily familar! [quote]Tarlev said: “Thank you Allan, for this DI! feast of science for All Hallows Eve!

For more info about true crime forensics in use, check out the Crime Library.com. Great stuff if your looking for gore with an educated twist. Look up your “favorite” criminal, past or present and find details of their crimes and how the cases were solved.
(I especialy enjoyed the criminal study of the canibal, Hannibal Lector, and the beasty boys from whome his story was drawn. The psychology of the character is another fascinating read also).
Happy Halloween, wishing you all unpleasant dreams and a lot of screams this spooky night. ;-) (loljk)”[/quote]

This sounds eerily familar!

]]> By: MacAvity http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass#comment-25444 MacAvity Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:54:04 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-25444 I live near the coast of California, where it's pretty dry most of the time, and dead things decompose very differently here. If I leave them exposed, they just dry out and turn into mummies not long after they start to ooze. Since I'm more interested in nice clean bones than in observing the effects of decay, I have learned that keeping the bodies - mine are just roadkill, not volunteer humans - under a tarp is fairly effective in keeping moisture in and scavengers out, while allowing the decomposers to do their work. My backyard always stinks for a few days after I add a new body to the pile. I generally don gloves to dig through the (by then mostly innocuous) decayed matter after all the flies and beetles have emerged from their pupae. My point is, I've seen decay firsthand and am not "grossed out" by it, but have not really taken the time to watch how it works, so I found this article especially Damn Interesting. I live near the coast of California, where it’s pretty dry most of the time, and dead things decompose very differently here. If I leave them exposed, they just dry out and turn into mummies not long after they start to ooze. Since I’m more interested in nice clean bones than in observing the effects of decay, I have learned that keeping the bodies – mine are just roadkill, not volunteer humans – under a tarp is fairly effective in keeping moisture in and scavengers out, while allowing the decomposers to do their work. My backyard always stinks for a few days after I add a new body to the pile. I generally don gloves to dig through the (by then mostly innocuous) decayed matter after all the flies and beetles have emerged from their pupae. My point is, I’ve seen decay firsthand and am not “grossed out” by it, but have not really taken the time to watch how it works, so I found this article especially Damn Interesting.

]]> By: Tarlev http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass#comment-25415 Tarlev Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:09:46 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-25415 Thank you Allan, for this DI! feast of science for All Hallows Eve! For more info about true crime forensics in use, check out the Crime Library.com. Great stuff if your looking for gore with an educated twist. Look up your “favorite” criminal, past or present and find details of their crimes and how the cases were solved. (I especialy enjoyed the criminal study of the canibal, Hannibal Lector, and the beasty boys from whome his story was drawn. The psychology of the character is another fascinating read also). Happy Halloween, wishing you all unpleasant dreams and a lot of screams this spooky night. ;-) (loljk) Thank you Allan, for this DI! feast of science for All Hallows Eve!

For more info about true crime forensics in use, check out the Crime Library.com. Great stuff if your looking for gore with an educated twist. Look up your “favorite” criminal, past or present and find details of their crimes and how the cases were solved.

(I especialy enjoyed the criminal study of the canibal, Hannibal Lector, and the beasty boys from whome his story was drawn. The psychology of the character is another fascinating read also).

Happy Halloween, wishing you all unpleasant dreams and a lot of screams this spooky night. ;-) (loljk)

]]> By: erikmartin http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass#comment-25325 erikmartin Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:15:00 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-25325 Who would want to be a forensic entomologist? I can't imagine a worse job than having to measure the larvae in the flesh of corpses. I wonder to what degree the families of the donors are informed of the use to which their loved ones' body has been put. I keep imagining the unpleasant surprise for some young and innocent anthropology student still grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother, with whom she used to talk over tea. Who would want to be a forensic entomologist? I can’t imagine a worse job than having to measure the larvae in the flesh of corpses.

I wonder to what degree the families of the donors are informed of the use to which their loved ones’ body has been put. I keep imagining the unpleasant surprise for some young and innocent anthropology student still grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother, with whom she used to talk over tea.

]]> By: Blondin http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass#comment-24427 Blondin Sun, 03 May 2009 14:17:07 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-24427 Brains! Brains! Brains! Brains!

]]> By: Myron68 http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass#comment-24426 Myron68 Sat, 02 May 2009 08:39:20 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-24426 That was very interesting, to most it might be found distasteful, but meat is meat, I met a young lady at a bar, and she was a forinsic patholgist for the city of Tyler, Texas she had a habit of talking about her work to the guy sitting next to her when I met her, after she told me about her day, I ordered a pizza heavy with sauce and light on the cheese, she just about tossed her tacos, I wish I had gotten her email address she would like this artical almost as much as I did:-) That was very interesting, to most it might be found distasteful, but meat is meat, I met a young lady at a bar, and she was a forinsic patholgist for the city of Tyler, Texas she had a habit of talking about her work to the guy sitting next to her when I met her, after she told me about her day, I ordered a pizza heavy with sauce and light on the cheese, she just about tossed her tacos, I wish I had gotten her email address she would like this artical almost as much as I did:-)

]]> By: sunshine http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass#comment-24176 sunshine Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:30:30 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-24176 They had a show on csi about this. It was an interesting show. They had a show on csi about this. It was an interesting show.

]]> By: leftybuick http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass#comment-24057 leftybuick Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:43:35 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-24057 Fantastic article! More on Body Farm here: http://delllounge.com/blogs/bodyfarm/archive/2009/03/02/part-1-the-deadest-zone.aspx Fantastic article! More on Body Farm here: http://delllounge.com/blogs/bodyfarm/archive/2009/03/02/part-1-the-deadest-zone.aspx

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