Natural history museums got too crazy about multimedia – why can’t the public appreciate the fine manual skills necessary to preserve an organism? A breathless zoo garden, a display of still life – frozen in time – all beautiful words for what are actually dead corpses. How come humans developed the interest for preserving and…… Continue reading Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads
Author: Anca Ioviţă
How to find your desired book in several worldwide libraries at once
Thanks to the wonders of interlibrary loan, no one is tied to their local library anymore, but how do you find the libraries where your desired book is located at? One such resource is Worldcat – it searches any type of media among the libraries that registered on their website. You can search libraries near…… Continue reading How to find your desired book in several worldwide libraries at once
Book Review: Natural Pregnancy and Parenting
During my last two posts, I placed some subtle hints that I’ve been through a very stressful period of my life because of an exam – now that it passed, I feel somehow lost, without an immediate goal in sight 🙂 Although I had to force myself to stop reading anything else than the…… Continue reading Book Review: Natural Pregnancy and Parenting
Mummies and the dream of immortality
Serendipity got me hooked on this exquisite album on mummies, showcasing the old-aged human desire for immortality. Having just visited the Body Worlds exhibition in Ludwigsburg, I was attuned to a book that describes not only the history of mummies, but also the present mummification techniques, like plastination and cryonics. The book is divided in…… Continue reading Mummies and the dream of immortality