{"id":14325,"date":"2012-04-12T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14325"},"modified":"2012-04-06T09:52:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:52:02","slug":"pure-evil-science-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14325","title":{"rendered":"“Pure Evil” Science Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ScienceBoingBoing recently featured<\/a> a “mad science” display illustrating the “Teratogenic Effects of Pure Evil in Ursus Teddius Domesticus,” and commenters helped identify it as the work of Allison Lonsdale, done for a display at the 2010 ConDor convention in San Francisco. There are photos of the whole exhibit here<\/a> (first three images), plus a transcript of the signage text.<\/p>\n

In particular I was amused by the first item under Protocols, “A sample of Pure Evil was obtained from the ruins of an exploded toaster in the south of England,” as a sly reference to the ending of Time Bandits<\/a>. I also liked the dryly bland note about the fate of the experimental subject receiving a 1000ppm dosage; after developing dental hypertrophy, ocular luminescence, and extreme behavioral changes, “Subject was then euthanized with a sustained burst of automatic weapons fire.”<\/p>\n

I love everything about this idea. Not only would this kind of science-fair display be a dynamite art project (a collection of stuffed-and-mounted monsters labeled with species names, for instance, or a survey of the relative efficacy of various vampire repellants), those of us with grade-school kids also have the opportunity to subvert an actual science fair project. I don’t believe there’s anything in the rules against investigating the feasibility of the reanimation of dead tissue via lightning bolt. The heck with baking-soda volcanoes; if Shadowboy’s first science fair doesn’t get the rules amended to specifically preclude me from suggesting future experiments, I’m doing it wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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