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Jeg har et brændende ønske om at læse til kulturhistorisk konservator, og derfor var jeg i januar måned i praktik på Medicinsk Museion, hos konservator Ion Meyer. Her blev jeg sat på en masse spændende opgaver. Det første jeg blev sat i gang med, var at rense menneskekranier af. Jeg arbejdede både med arkæologiske kranier […]

Social media and public health is a diverse field, and there is always some new corner to explore! These days I am increasing my knowledge on the use of social media for disaster management and coordination. The reason for this is that I next week will be giving a lecture on the topic to students […]

Det er med stor sorg, at vi har modtaget meddelelsen om, at vores publikumsmedarbejder gennem godt fire år, Anni Harris, er afgået ved døden, 65 år gammel. Anni kom til Medicinsk Museion i efteråret 2009, hvor hun blev udvalgt i et felt af over 300 ansøgere. Vi fornemmede et menneske, der kunne være såvel struktureret […]

I’ve had this call for papers for the ‘The Return of Biography: Reassessing Life Stories in Science Studies’ workshop at Science Museum on 18 July laying on my desktop for months: The lived life serves as an organising principle across disciplines. We talk of the biographies of things and places, and we use personal narratives […]

I renæssancen kom lægerne forholdsvis sent i gang med at udnytte bogtrykkerkunstens muligheder.
Lægesproget var på den tid latin og ikke længere græsk, og man var ikke i stand til at gennemgå de overleverede græske hippokratiske skrifter kritisk med henblik på en trykt udgave.

Here’s my short speech at the opening of Biohacking: Do it yourself! last Thursday evening: In true hacker style, this opening is somewhat ad hoc-ish. We will spend about 20 minutes up here in the old auditorium; several people will say a few introductory words each, in several languages. Then — because there isn’t room for […]

On my list of things to do writing a blog post about my experiences with teaching Public Health Science Communication to graduate students at the University of Copenhagen has been high-up for a while. However, moving to Bonn, Germany and other minor things have somehow managed to overrule the writing of this post. But its […]

Du står med Shakespeares samlede sonetter, en videnskabelig artikel i PDF-format, et JPEG-farvebillede i mellemhøj opløsning og en 26 sekunders MP3-file af Martin Luther Kings “I have a dream” tale fra 1963 og du skal sende dem til en kollega på den anden side af jorden. Udfordring: det skal sendes med posten, men det må […]

[flickr id=”8391519953″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”original” group=”” align=”right”] Nylig hjemkommen fra det Beijingske måtte jeg naturligvis en tur i museets nyeste udstilling. Det første der slog mig, var den allestedsnærværende kontrast mellem de bløde, organiske materialer og de mange elektroniske apparater og skærmes mekaniske, firkante tilstedeværelse. [flickr id=”8391519867″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”original” group=”” align=”left”]Den findes i skyggeteatret, […]

Today I had the pleasure of being invited to a talk at The National Museum by Jonathan Wichmann from Maersk Line. I got the invitation from Ida Gustav and Linea Hansen, so kudos to them 🙂 Maersk Line have had immense success on social media and reaching levels of fans/likes/engagement that the rest of us can […]

Here are some of the objects that were demonstrated (touched, fingered, fondled, caressed, stroken etc.) during the touching seminar yesterday. Here are bundles of hair from an often-caressed cat: And here is a toy:    At least two participants brought coffee/tea mugs, and two of us chose to bring small objects that they like to […]

From January 25th, Medical Museion will house an open biohacking laboratory, pieced together from recycled furniture, IKEA cabinets, and cheap “hacked” instruments made by do-it-yourself biologists from BiologiGaragen and Hackteria. At a series of hands-on events and discussions, visitors are invited to step inside the world of practical biotechnology, and encounter the dreams and realities […]