Disclaimer #1: This post is primarily shameless bragging. But, as Lesley Gore would have said if she blogged about museums while eating German chocolate in her pajamas, “It’s my website and I’ll brag if I want to.” Disclaimer #2: The awesome exhibit I’m about to show off was a collaborative effort. I was the primary developer,…
If you follow me on Twitter (cough…shameless plug…cough), you know that I recently spent a day in Switzerland, swimming in the Rhine. Or floating in the Rhine. Whatever. There was some kicking involved, so it totally counts. Have you done this? You should do this. It was heavenly to drift down the river, and so…
Phylogenetic trees. I love you almost as much as dichotomous keys…almost. Like most charts and graphs, phyogenetic trees aren’t big interpretive hits in museums. The fault isn’t that the information is boring – evolution is about as amazing and awe-inspiring as it gets (for this bio-nerd, anyway). The problem is that the information is too interesting.…
Oh, dichotomous keys. You’re like the cat who came back – I just can’t avoid you. Have you ever used a dichotomous key? The idea is simple: use a series of mutually-exclusive statements to identify something. The execution is often more painful. Popular as torture devices in Invertebrate Zoology courses worldwide (have you identified over…
Museums Askew 