Mechanical butterfly, circa 1911
Category: History of Science
Check out this great slideshow of fascinating advertising novelties from 1911, over at Scientific American....
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Category: History of Science
Check out this great slideshow of fascinating advertising novelties from 1911, over at Scientific American....
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Category: Biology
From 1810-11, architect and amateur naturalist George Perry published The Arcana, a lavishly illustrated, serial natural history magazine. Although Perry intended for the serial issues to be assembled by his subscribers into a book, only thirteen complete copies are...
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Category: Blogosphere
"Paperwork Explosion" - creepy techno-utopian propaganda from IBM
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Category: Artists & Art
in the 1760s, Honore Fragonard - cousin of the famous rococo painter - was stripping, dying, and drying bodies into anatomical sculptures that still survive today. A new book explores his world
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Category: Blogosphere
minouette of magpie & whiskeyjack has posted an interesting meditation on the resemblances between Katie Scott's whimsical faux-botanical/biological atlas pages (above), the illustrations of Ernst Haeckel (whose portrait minouette just finished), and the Codex Seraphinianous. It's a harmonious grouping...
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Category: Book Reviews
vintage eye candy from Vesalius to Schmiedel
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Category: Artists & Art
At the moment, a few blocks away, a few of my friends are attending a Science and Technology Studies (STS) conference at the Harvard Kennedy School. I have no idea what they're doing, although I'm sure it's very smart. I'm...
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Category: Books & Essays
Wait - did Peter Nowogrodski just shoehorn everything I love into one meandering, indulgent multimedia essay??* Tolkien's Shire appears as a coherent ecosystem, cradled by productive fields and populated by abundant orchards, caches of edible mushroom, and even the fishable...
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Category: Events
The 2011 Congress of Curious Peoples, featuring, among other guests, Anna Maerker, author of Model Experts: Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815; Mike Sappol, author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity...
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Category: Biology
Gould didn't think Nabokov was a scientific innovator - yet a new genetic study shows the author of Lolita was right all along about blue butterfly migration to the New World.
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