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I went to the Nobel Museum seminar on exhibiting science in museums last Monday (26 March) where Marika Hedin from the Nobel Museum    spoke about the challenges in exhibiting the history of modern science (the experiences of science centres, problems in funding/sponsoring, relations with the scientific community, etc.).

Fact is, when installed correctly, spam filters work for most mail programs. My own experience is that it works for 49 out of 50 mails, so I may have missed recent developments in pharma spam mail design –like this one that arrived in my inbox a few minutes ago:   Spam mail used to be pure […]

Here’s another artist (cf. the former post on the Genpet) who creates web sites to comment on contemporary biomedicine. Australian artist Justine Cooper has created a site for the mock drug Havidol which is “the first and only” treatment for Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD). In an interview, Cooper says that her critical acumen is […]

The editors of NordNytt, the Nordic journal for ethnology and folkloristics, are distributing this call for papers for a thematic issue on “Museums in between art, culture and science”:

The Science Communication group at Imperial College, London, are inviting to the annual “Science & the Public” conference on Saturday 19th May 2007. General info here.

The Danish National Hospital (Da. Rigshospitalet) became world famous outside the clinical research community with Danish instructor Lars von Trier’s creative and celebrated TV/video series The Kingdom (Da. Riget, 1994). Riget was a somewhat creepy but hilarious story that questioned the higher rationality in this Danish bastion of high-tech medical science. The ghosts that reigned in the labyrinthic basement hallways were guardians of reminiscences […]

The Bio-Genica company website is worth an extended visit: It’s brilliant, hilarious — and somewhat scary. Artist Adam Brandejs has constructed the perfect biotech company website look-alike, complete with product catalogue, service & support pages, etc. The company’s major product is the Genpet, a “pre-packaged, bioengineered pet”, not a toy or a robot, but a “living, breathing” genetically engineered animal with […]

In co-operation with BioCampus, University of Copenhagen and the Schools of Visual Arts, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Medical Museion is arranging a free public conference “Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body”, Monday 3 September, 2007. Confirmed speakers include: Ingeborg Reichle, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (www.kunstgeschichte.de/reichle) Ben Fry, MIT Media Lab (http://benfry.com) Wolfgang Knapp, Art in Context, University […]

The fourth Swiss STS meeting (“ScienceFutures”, 6-9 February 2008) will focus on future scenarios of sci-med-tech in society. Here’s the brief (which is also a good summary of some of the main issues in the field): ScienceFutures is a provocative reaction to the notion that with the millennium, utopian thinking has come to an end. While in early […]

(For our Danish readers): I en pressemeddelelse i dag fremlægger Forskningsrådet for Teknologi og Produktion (FTP) en ny og spændende videnskabsteori: Amerikanske og engelske forskere har for nylig vist, at det rent faktisk kan lade sig gøre at designe en “usynlighedsfrakke” .. Indtil videre er usynlighedsfrakken ganske vist kun teoretisk bevist. Men videnskabshistorien viser os, at mange teorier […]

If you understand Danish this seminar on the ethical status of aborted foetuses organised by BioCampus at the University of Copenhagen might be of interest (Tuesday 20 March, 10am-4pm, University of Copenhagen, Humanities Campus, Njalsgade 80, room 24.2.07): Hvornår kan et foster med rimelighed siges at være en person? Seminaret tager centrale elementer i debatten […]

Reminder: the dead-line for abstracts to the “Science & Public”-conference at Imperial College, London (19 May 2007) is next Thursday, 1 March. Write to scienceandpublic@googlemail.com . For earlier announcement, see here.