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My stomach rumbled with excitement when I read the call for papers for a workshop titled ‘History, Digestion and Society: New Perspectives’ at University College Dublin, 30 April – 1 May 2010, organised at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. As the organisers (Ian Miller and Mike Liffey) point out, diet and digestion […]

Her i weekenden faldt jeg tilfældigvis over følgende sætning i Søndagsavisen: Nye rotteforsøg viser nu, at unge, der drikker heftigt, kan få en mere risikobetonet adfærd, når de bliver voksne.” (Søndagsavisen, 25-27 sept. 2009, s. 5) Øh, hvordan viser rotteforsøgene lige dét? fristes man til at spørge. Jeg kunne ikke lade være med at trække […]

If the colour of medicine is green — what is (are) the colour(s) of the biomedical laboratory? And how have these colours shifted over time? I’m asking, because David just sent this image of a “gorgeous MacBeth densitometer” (cat.nr. 1998.0174) telling me he’s now looking around for “space age blue” in his museum’s collection. I guess the […]

Også i antikken kunne læger komme ud for meget omfangsrige patienter. Man kan nemt forestille sig at det var tilfældet i det gamle Rom, det er straks mere overraskende at også grækerne kunne udvikle egentlig fedme. Men selvfølgelig kunne de det, det var bare ikke et motiv som inspirerede de idealiserende kunstnere i 5. og […]

Rose Sherman (Director of Enterprise Technology at the Minnesota Historical Society) is circulating a survey about how museums are engaging their communities through social media technologies — blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc. Rose asks a lot of relevant questions, like: How frequently, on average, are your social media web sites updated? What function(s) in your […]

Later today, the art exhibition SK-INTERFACES — originally displayed in Liverpool in 2008 (see earlier post here) — opens in “extended continuation” form (what others would call perpetual beta 🙂 at Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg. The opening event features Kira O’Reilly (inthewrongplaceness), Yann Marussich (Bleu Remix), Paul Vanouse (Relative Velocity Inscription Device) and Jun Takita […]

Dansk kunstlivs enfant terrible, Uwe Max Jensen — som laver kunst bl.a. ved at pisse skulpturer af — er pissesur på dagbladet Politiken fordi en af deres kunstanmeldere brugte så meget onlinesværte på ENDO-ECTO: I Nordjyske i går skriver UMJ, at ENDO-ECTO har “kastet hele 10 (ti!) artikler af sig i Politiken (i den skrevne […]

Yuwei Lin and Christian Greiffenhagen are planning to organise a panel on ‘video methodologies and STS’ at next year’s EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology) meeting in Trento (September 2-4, 2010), and want to know if others are interested. As they rightly point out, despite the rapid technical developments and a general […]

The other day photographer Mads Ljungdahl visited us — and took this romantic picture in one of our reconstructed early 20th century dentist’s clinics (it’s the building of the High Court of Eastern Denmark in the background): (credit: Mads Ljungdahl, http://www.madsljungdahl.dk and  http://www.artreview.com/profile/Mads_Lj)

A couple of months ago I advertised David Pantalony’s forthcoming article on the colour green in medicine. Just want to add that it was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal last week (Sept 15, pp. 402-03). Read the full online text here.

A couple of weeks ago, I noted with some innocent pleasure that this humble blog was listed among the 100 Best Blogs and Websites for Innovative Academics. Pretty nice, I thought! Then it turned out we’re also selected for the 100 Best Curator and Museum Blogs. Pretty nice too, I thought! A couple of days ago, a service called The Daily Reviewer told us […]

Den 2 september 2009 hoppede undertegnede (i selskab med Medicinsk Museions Jeppe Hørning) på et tog vestpå for at opleve teaterstykket Robottens anatomi. Stykket blev opført af Center for Kunst og Videnskab i Odense (SDU). På centeret beskæftiger de sig med forskningsformidling og da vi gør det samme her på Medicinsk Museion tænkte jeg, at […]