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Submit your abstracts by December 17th for the annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSAEu) in Copenhagen in June 2018, with the theme of GREEN (and the un-green…): http://green-slsa2018.ku.dk/ ‘Green’ is one of the most pervasive tropes of our time, and has been applied to domains ranging from environmentalism or politics […]

In case you missed our creative director Ken Arnold’s Inaugural lecture the 4th september 2017:  

Un-Greening Green – Materials – Metaphors – Media – Misunderstandings.

What’s bugging the gut in OCD? A new review that came out yesterday in the journal Depression and Anxiety explores yet another link between a psychiatric disorders and the gut bacteria. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterized by “recurrent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and ritualistic behaviors aimed at reducing distress (compulsions)”. Although an relatively unexplored area, […]

For Culture Night 2016 at Medical Museion we made a poetic survey in collaboration with the author Merete Helle Pryds, which questioned peoples understandings of the relationship between feelings, body, food and digestion. As a part of the survey we asked people to draw where in the body they experience their emotions. We received 435 […]

For Culture Night 2016 at Medical Museion we made a poetic survey in collaboration with the author Merete Helle Pryds, which questioned peoples understandings of the relationship between feelings, body, food and digestion. As a part of the survey we asked people to draw where in the body they experience their emotions. We received 435 […]

Here’s my talk at the night of discussion titled ‘What the hell is the point of museums?’ held at Medical Museion November 3, 2016

In last issue of the journal Isis (vol 107, nr 2, 2016), twelwe scholars discuss different aspects of The History Manifesto from the vantage point of the history of science, technology and medicine.

It’s been an interesting week for ‘Heirloom‘ – the artwork we’re currently exhibiting that grows cell portraits of the artist’s daughters in bioreactor tanks, and then preserves them for display. The cells have grown so successfully that last week the tubes became blocked, causing increased pressure and a leak. Then on Monday we discovered a […]

In Gina Czarnecki and John Hunt’s living artwork Heirloom, cells grow almost imperceptibly. Keeping them alive and healthy is, however, far from easy. Last month we hosted two interactive workshops entitled Cellcraft to allow curators, artists, and others interested a glimpse into the world of growing and caring for cells. Under the guidance of Dr. Rod Dillon we were […]

On Sunday July 3rd at 7pm, Medical Museion will be hosting a tour through the Scandinavian history of neuroscience, organised by the FENS History of Neuroscience Committee as part of the FENS 2016 conference. Speakers include Albert Gjedde, Hans Hultborn and Troels Kardel (University of Copenhagen); Richard Brown (Dalhousie University), Lorenzo Lorusso (Chiari), and Zoltán Molnár (University of Oxford). The talks […]

And although the biohacking lab has gone we want to keep in mind the lessons with regard to the importance of craft and openness in science. Here’re some words from the opening on togas, lab coats and open science in the academy: