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One of my favourite science bloggers, biochemistry professor Larry Moran (Sandwalk), comments in passing on the TED talks — the global institution which the sci-tech-design-online segment of the creative class loves to attend and watch: There’s a certain mysticism about TED talks that I deplore. In order to be a successful TED talker you need […]

In Raleigh, NC! And ScienceOnline2012 starts in just a few hours. Yeah. During my trip here from Copenhagen, yesterday I was in many ways confronted with one of the topics which will most definitely be mentioned in today’s talks – blogs. As if the airline knew that at least two people on their flight were […]

Is it possible to split oneself into several Is? Could I perhaps borrow Hermione’s time turner next week and thus be able to travel back in time? Both would be great solution to this small problem I have. Next week, I’m attending the ScienceOnline2012 conference (see more below) in North Carolina, and the programme is […]

I et åbent brev til Hospira Pharmaceuticals offentliggjort i dag i The Lancet kan man læse: No responsible pharmaceutical company should have anything to do with executions. As your own code of business conduct states, Hospira has an “ethical compass” to “accept the responsibility of being an ethical global citizen”. It is time for Hospira […]

Når man hører en menneskestemme, drejer man uvilkårligt hovedet for at sætte et ansigt på stemmen.
Mange mennesker nærer et tilsvarende ønske om at se mytologiske væsener legemliggjort eller afbildninger af for længst afdøde personer, uanset at deres portræt ikke er bevaret.

Even though I have been blogging for almost half a year, I can still be amazed by the experience of other people reading my posts, reblogging them, commenting and retweeting them and contacting me directly to express their thoughts. I must admit that it gives me a kick every time. It is not a snow […]

How do you communicate the relevance of science communication to a fellow public health person? Can I make a convincing argument for why things such as Twitter can be a useful tool in the communication of research? In the days leading up to Christmas, I was challenged by these exact questions, when I after dinner […]

We repeat last year’s greetings, because the image is the best possible I can imagine from a medical museum involved in public engagement; after all, communication is a mutual gift-giving affair. (And again, thanks to Roger Cooter for sending me the original card.)

Then you could apply for the job as their Collections Assistant, working with personal material associated with Florence Nightingale, items relating to the Crimean War and nursing artefacts, a letter archive, and a rare book collection; in addition to curatorial duties the job involves working with a wide range of people, including academic researchers and family historians. Contact the Director, Natasha […]

Consider this quote: A historian of the not-too-distant future will describe this past decade as marking the “material turn.” If language, and eventually culture, came to distinguish a generational shift in scholarly focus in the second half of the twentieth century, what is occurring now across the range of the humanities—from English literature to the […]

More to the difficulty of displaying abstract concepts in museum exhibits and installations: triggered by a workshop organised as part of the Birkbeck Pain Project, I wrote a post a couple of months ago about the difficulty of displaying pain. A mostly subjective sensation, pain has few, if any, visible physical correlates. Now there is reason to ask the question […]

Most science, technology and medical museum collections have been brought together from nationally located sources, and are usually described and displayed as national treasures. And most large STM museums still define themselves (and are financed) as truly national museums — Deutsches Museum in Munich, the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, the Norwegian Science […]