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The number of interesting (read: thoughtful and reflecting) museum blogs is growing steadily. One of my newfound favourites is Bridget McKenzie’s cultural interpretation & creative education, started in 2006. Bridget was, among other things, responsible for learning at the British Library before she became director of a consultancy firm that helps ‘cultural bodies’ engage with audiences, use digital technologies and build capacity. Accordingly, her […]

Jonas’ indlæg om den ‘lydløse’ cd fik mig til at tænke videre over, hvordan længlsen efter ro i en fortravlet og hektisk verden antager de forunderligste udtryk. Jeg mindes den fremragende udstilling Sleeping and Dreaming, vist på Wellcome Collection i London og Deutsches Hygiene Museum i Dresden sidste år. Her kunne man blandt andet se […]

  I går beskrev jeg en lydløs CD fra firmaet World Development Systems LTD. Jeg er sådan set ikke ude på at få firmaet ned med nakken, men det er altså nogle temmelig sære produkter de sælger. Tjek den her. Ideen er altså, hvis jeg forstår det rigtig, at den smarte “Water Enhancer” renser vandet for dets negative […]

Media people say that the essence of news is that ‘Dog bites postman’ never makes it to the headlines, while ‘Postman bites dog’ does. So here is a news item from the blog world: Like other museum blogs, this one (and its Danish sibling) writes comments about exhibitions — either about our own shows or those of other museums. However, I’ve never seen the reverse, […]

Just saw the announcement for the conference ‘Sympathies and Antipathies: Altruism and Emotional Response Across the Disciplines’ (to be held at CRASSH, Cambridge, UK, 29-30 May), which will chart this territory in which earlier models of fellow-feeling, compassion, and commiseration are taken up in modern science, fiction, film, and social policy; and to explore how […]

Jeg tror, at nogle former for alternativ medicin giver rigtig god mening. Nu er jeg ikke læge, men jeg kan sagtens forestille mig, at der er tilfælde, hvor alternativ behandling faktisk kan hjælpe nogle mennesker. Der er dog også tilfælde, hvor jeg står fuldstændig af – og jeg bliver ikke den første der køber en lydløs CD. […]

One of the great attractions here at Medical Museion right now is Colin Rennie‘s glass sculpture of ATP-synthase. We have placed it in the basement area to the left of the main entrance — we didn’t dare put it on the ground floor because we were afraid the 18th century wooden floor construction would collapse under the 900 780 […]

Forleden kom der en pakke med posten. Fuld med alle mulige slags dejlige søde ting — fra lakridskonfekt til sukkerovertrukne mandler og lækre småkager. Yummy. Hvem mon sender et kilo slik og kager til mig? En studerende som vil have højere karakter? En taknemmelig museumsgæst? En jobansøger? Ingen af delene. I bunden af pakken lå der et kort og […]

The other day a package arrived in my office with a variety of sweets — from licorice candy to suger coated almonds. Yummy. Who would send me a two pound sweet gift basket? In the bottom of the package was a short letter (in Danish): “Many thanks for your help in reviewing scientific articles … [“Vi takker mange […]

Over and over again I’ve praised Derek Lowe’s blog ‘In the Pipeline’ (see for example here). Derek delivers almost daily insights into the world of drug research, from chemical lab work routines to Big Pharma management and economics. Yesterday’s post (‘A cure for the common cold …’) is a fine comment on the problematic quality of pharma communication on the mass media. I quote […]

Se hvor fint den hænger. (Tak til Julia for den flotte tegning) I går skrev Jonas om spændende varer til en kommende museumsbutik, og Thomas har også tidligere berørt emnet. Der er ingen tvivl om, at mulighederne for at lave en sjov medicinsk museumsbutik er store, men lige nu er pladsforholdene i museet desværre ikke til det.   Men […]

Although I don’t like Twitter, I must admit that it is an interesting ego-document genre. A written trace of daily life — a publicly available diary, easily written, easily forgotten. Which made me think about the memoir genre, which is more difficult to write and less easily forgotten. Gore Vidal defined memoir as a story of “how one remembers […]