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Tag Archives: natural history
Beauty In Brains
Whenever I yank meat from a lobster or crack a crab claw, one thought always pops into my head: these look like giant spiders. It doesn’t stop me from eating them (delicious giant spiders), but it does make me think … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, books, Features, Frontpage, Uncategorized, Visual Art
Tagged arthropod, insect, Microphotography, Microscopes, natural history, Nicholas James Strausfeld, Photography
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Illustrations from Science/Art History: Buffon’s Histoire naturelle
Before Darwin’s finches, even before Audubon’s birds, there were Buffon’s elephants, leopards, and bats. A key figure in the French Enlightenment, naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon produced 44 volumes of lavishly illustrated natural history called Histoire naturelle. The volumes, … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Frontpage, History, Visual Art
Tagged History, illustration, natural history
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Unnatural Taxonomies
Artist Bob DeGraaf’s series, The Crossing of Species, arranges objects of similar size and shape as if they were a series of specimens. He calls them “a new order of species,” combining “animal-like objects and object-like animals.” In some of … Continue reading
Ken Burns’ National Parks: from Scenery to Science
Part One Ken Burns’ new series, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea premiered on Public Television stations nationwide during the last week of September. By the end of the first episode, I immediately recognized that this opus differed from past … Continue reading
Andrew Bird’s New Album Sings of Natural History
Andrew Bird has become one of my favorite musicians, I’ve been quietly soothed by his gentle and melodic tunes, enthralled by the complexity with which he layers his songs and overall impressed with his matured skill. The music itself was … Continue reading
