Museum of Engineered Organisms Opens In Pittsburgh

qeorqe writes "The Center for PostNatural History is a museum and research library about organisms that have been created either by genetic engineering or selective breeding. Included in the collection are Sea Monkeys and GloFish. From the article: 'One of the cool things about natural history museums is that they show you how nature has changed over time, adapting to volatile conditions and extreme challenges. And nothing is more volatile, extreme, or challenging than the human race, so it makes sense that there would be a museum to chronicle just how much we’ve messed with plants, animals, the climate, and in general the world around us. The Center for PostNatural History, opening this week in Pittsburgh, is that museum.'"

Comments

Can we add InterCaps to the recent extinctions?

[Samantha Wright]

Postnatural. Postnatural is just a word. It is used in a sentence like this: "this bread sure is postnatural." What is this PostNatural business? Are we implementing a class for a non-artificial version of a post?

(I tried to join the local Grammar Nazi chapter, but they got upset when I pointed out that they were actually just garden-variety syntactic fascists.)

Re:Can we add InterCaps to the recent extinctions?

[clyde_cadiddlehopper]

"this bread sure is postnatural."

Whatever you do, don't say "this breakfast cereal sure is postnatural."

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[bradorsomething]

Oh... Orga-*nisms* ...my bad, I don't want to visit any more.

Yum

[DeadDecoy]

And at the end of the museum, there's a cafeteria that demonstrates just how delicious these modified organisms are.