May 2012
2 posts
“Before [Richard] Owen, museums were designed primarily for the use and...”
– Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, p 91. (link via Google Books)
Richard Owen was the “driving force” behind the creation of London’s Natural History Museum, which opened in 1880. In contrast to the British Museum, the Natural History Museum was dedicated to open...
“I think that in general we have a pathological response to anything we measure....”
– Cory Doctorow, in an interview with Duke University’s Gerry Canavan about Whuffie and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. 