first half, we watched a couple of videos. one of which was
positively pornographic, biologically speaking. i've seen plenty of
"human reproduction" videos throughout my biology career. but none
has come this far with details and imagery.
we were brought through the passage that the sperm takes on its
perilous journey (those glands secreting their stuff into the
passage), as well as the ovum's rite of passage.
then there was this infrared image of the flacid THIHNG becoming
engorged with blood.
we also saw for about 3 seconds, the head of the baby come out of
the STRETCHED mouth of the birth canal, in all its gory glory, it's
face all srcunched up as if in disgust. and the nurses stuffed this
pump thing into its mouth to make it breathe. then, the next 2
seconds we saw the entire piece of baby slip out,
urgh.
i don't EVER want to see that again.
then the sec half of the prac got a few stations we had to go to
and listen to the TAs talk about the displays. we traced the
development of the human fetus from fertilization right to birth.
then also got frog embryo and chick development.
we had to make quick sketches of the displays. i regret to say that
my human embryonic ball of cells look rather like a shrivelled
bunch of grapes. i don't even want to talk about how my chick
embryo looks like. and yes, that's a chick embryo you're looking
at, not some extinct prehistoric prelife, if that's what you're
thinking. geez.
how bout that for a practical? 
