Slicing a Brain

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Guthlac
Last night I watched yet another fascinating programme by Professor Alice Roberts on ‘What makes us human’. It was the usual mix of morkish, sentimental shots of the Professor walking by new born children and their parents looking on all dewy eyed (in a scene that could have been lifted from the script of the next Nicholas Sparks inspired movie), she was pregnant at the time and this was part of the hook of the programme. It was total pap and I feel the good professor must have been contractually obliged to do this. The reasons for me saying this is two fold: firstly she did a wonderfully professional piece to camera whilst having an ultrasound scan of her unborn child, always an emotional time, yet the piece she did was worthy of David Attenborough at his best; secondly she spent a couple of minutes dissecting a human brain and then slicing it into small pieces without a seconds thought (she is after all a medical doctor and a real Doctor, holding a PhD) – so why the morkish nonsense whilst she did a voice over?…I suspect a small amount of dumbing down not by her but the producer.

Whilst on the subject of brain slicing I had the first part of a follow up work on root canal surgery yesterday and that felt like I had my brain sliced. This is no reflection on my dentist, who is wonderful, but just having someone rummaging about in your jaw is not going to be on many people’s bucket list. Part two is next Wednesday…can’t wait.

Simon Marchini
WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
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An artist, historian and middle aged man who'se aim in life is to try and enjoy as much of it as he can
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