Comments on: The Remains of Doctor Bass http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass/ A collection of Damn Interesting things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:49:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ktroxursoxoff http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass/#comment-26399 ktroxursoxoff Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:23:37 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-26399 This article just made me consider becoming and anthropologist, very damn interesting in a kind of dark way! This article just made me consider becoming and anthropologist, very damn interesting in a kind of dark way!

]]> By: Jujuman http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass/#comment-26352 Jujuman Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:21:46 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-26352 Fantastic article. And I didn't throw up once. Still seems fresh after all these years.... Thought it might interest some trivia junkie out there that Shakespeare had his own quaint speculatiions on the different rates of human putrefaction: HAMLET How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot? First Clown I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year. HAMLET Why he more than another? First Clown Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that he will keep out water a great while; and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Act V: Scene 1) Fantastic article. And I didn’t throw up once. Still seems fresh after all these years….
Thought it might interest some trivia junkie out there that Shakespeare had his own quaint speculatiions on the different rates of human putrefaction:
HAMLET
How long will a man lie i’ the earth ere he rot?
First Clown
I’ faith, if he be not rotten before he die–as we
have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce
hold the laying in–he will last you some eight year
or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year.
HAMLET
Why he more than another?
First Clown
Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that
he will keep out water a great while; and your water
is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.

(Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Act V: Scene 1)

]]> By: mmiskov100 http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass/#comment-26114 mmiskov100 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:35:15 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-26114 Scientific-technological revolution and the historical consciousness.The way how the makind developed throuhg last 40 000 years,expressed in terms of semiotics. Scientific-technological revolution and the historical consciousness.The way how the makind developed throuhg last 40 000 years,expressed in terms of semiotics.

]]> By: no-imagination http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remains-of-doctor-bass/#comment-26089 no-imagination Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:50:12 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=924#comment-26089 i love to read about the body farm.i've lived here in knoxville my whole life and when i was a kid i wuold ask my parents what the smell was when we'd drive by on the interstate....not a pretty smell. i love to read about the body farm.i’ve lived here in knoxville my whole life and when i was a kid i wuold ask my parents what the smell was when we’d drive by on the interstate….not a pretty smell.

]]> 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:-)

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