Ben’s Techy Musings

I think this is awesome. Starting tomorrow (Sunday 27th April - later today if you’re a New Zealander), the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is going to be thawing and then dissecting a Collossal Squid. According to the BBC article on which I found this, the process will take days, and all of it will be streamed live.

The video streams are live now and I can see an empty thawing bath, a dissection table and some people walking around. I hope to catch them getting started tomorrow.

It would be great to see more engaging stuff like this from other museums and universities over the world. Science and nature encompass us; they’re not just things to be respectfully studied within the walls of a museum. In particular, the great but fairly static institutions in London would do a lot of good for themselves if they could offer something as fascinating as this.

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