Discovery & Invention, Period 5, 13 Feb '08

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

"Human anatomy," said Mohinder when the class assembled. "A field in which the primary European text for over a millenia was largely based on the vivisection of dogs."

"There have been a number of religious prescriptions against conducting dissections, and although some of the earliest we know of were committed almost a thousand years ago they remained a relative rarity. Criminals could be sentenced not only to death, but also dissection. For the more serious offences."

Mohinder pointed at the diagram on the board behind him, contining a brief outline, "Circulation, digestion, respiratory, nervous, but one of the earliest system to be mapped was muscularskeleton system." And then in further detail.

"I won't ask you to commit any misdemeanors in class," and Mohinder smiled at that, "But I do want you to assemble the human skeletal system from the modelled bones in front of you," and he nodded at the boxes on the students' desks.

[OCD is live. Have at it.]

Comments

Re: During the lecture #6

[wanna-be-lucas.livejournal.com]

"Because throwing stuff is always helpful for the attention span," Lucas rolled his eyes and shook his head.

Re: During the lecture #6

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

Rodney lifted his head and stared. He could not believe this actually required an explanation. "The purpose of throwing something at you was to make you aware that your obnoxious pen clicking was distracting to others so that you would stop said clicking and thus allow your fellow classmates to focus on the lecture."

After saying this, Rodney was worried that he had used too many big words.

Re: During the lecture #6

[wanna-be-lucas.livejournal.com]

Lucas laughed, "Now, had you asked politely in the first place, I'd have considered your request. But since you threw paper at my head, I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep clicking."

Re: During the lecture #6

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

Asked politely? Honestly, the thought had never occurred to him. Someone doing something that obnoxious and that consistently had to be doing it on purpose, thus they would be unlikely to respond to traditional methods of intervention. Rodney let his head fall back to the desk.

Re: During the lecture #6

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Always eager to please and entertain his roomie, Sokka started drumming on his desk in time to the pen clicks.

Re: During the lecture #6

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

Rodney covered his head with both arms and whimpered. This was just too much. He gave up on the lecture and decided he'd learn the material on his own later. Unfortunately, this meant he'd have to spend even more time on god-awful biology. He whimpered some more.