Unblinded Science, Period Six [6/14]

[after-17-years.livejournal.com]

Today's practicum is variations on a theme - camera obscura. For those with a general respect for living things, students will find workstations with materials and instructions to make a paint can camera.

For those with a more adventurous/morbid turn of mind there is a rather more peculiar experiment involving formerly live squid and their ocular apparatus.

Walter will happily demonstrate for interested students how to remove the eye from a squid and attach it to an apparatus of Walter's design that will display the last view that the squid had in life*.

He will then turn the students over to take their own now-dead squid with the direction that they must find what the squid last saw before death. (In all instances, the squid's last view was of Walter wearing a clown hat, a cowboy hat, or a fez, student's choice.)

For reference, initially the view will likely be upside down unless the student has the squid attached upside down to begin with.

[ooc: Students are not required to participate in or even read the squid portion of the class today. Feel free to log in and make cameras and ignore the students in the other side of the classroom.

*Link in squid section is canon, but a bit icky. Forewarned, etc.]

Comments

Re: TA

[after-17-years.livejournal.com]

Walter beamed at him like a student expecting some juicy extra credit points. "It could be more impressive, I know, but they do frown on using human cadavers here."

Re: TA

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"If you brought real human eyeballs in for this experiment, I would be grossed out," Peter said. "I'm very grateful you didn't.

Re: TA

[after-17-years.livejournal.com]

Walter lost some of his joviality. "You must have a stronger stomach than that, son. Unlike humans, squid are rarely the victims of crimes. No matter what some chefs may perpetrate."

Re: TA

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"So I'm supposed to be prepared for all the crimes I'm going to be solving?" Peter said. "I'm not sure I follow the logic here, unless you're trying to dictate my future career as a forensic scientist."

Re: TA

[after-17-years.livejournal.com]

"Don't limit yourself like that," Walter said. "You will benefit from a diverse set of skills and experience.

"And a strong stomach," he added.

Re: TA

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"Well, that at least I can agree with," Peter said. "Limiting myself is exactly what I plan to avoid."