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A couple of months ago, I announced a three day meeting titled ‘Cultures of Anatomical Collections’, which some of our good medical museum colleagues in Leiden were about to put together for mid-February 2012. Their aim was to explore anatomical preparations and collections as cultural heritage rather than scientific collections; they were interested in what the technical details of anatomical preparations tell us about […]

If you have watched the Norwegian movie, The Troll Hunter, you know how to beat trolls. Simply point a UV lamp at the troll and its body instantly turns to stone. According to the lead troll hunter, the “trolls’ adverse reaction to sunlight is due to their inability to convert Vitamin D into calcium, which […]