Jul 18
The Powell Cotton family were explorers, soldiers, women, anthropologists, naturalists, film-makers and more. Their astonishing archives and collection form the core of the Powell Cotton Museum (PCM) in its country park, and include the world’s largest elephant specimen and the first room-sized habitat-display diorama (a form of exhibit best known through the examples at the …
Jul 25
What is the history of science? A clichéd answer might invoke a parade of big names: Galileo, Darwin, Einstein. But this is a really rubbish history if we are trying to get people to understand and engage with science in the present day. Will solar power save us from global warming? Do neutrinos move faster …
Jul 18
Beginning a Chain Reaction! Chain Reaction! is an attempt to do some creative science communication in a way that embodies approaches taken by historians of science. On a simple level, it celebrates a piece of laboratory kit the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine, which is 30 years old in 2013. By rapidly multiplying fragments of …
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