Interesting article by Edward Rothstein comparing how the new California Academy of Science and the Exploratorium excite wonder in visitors. He thinks the Exploratorium offers a better experience overall. See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/arts/design/04museum.html Also includes a slide show
Innovation and Visualization is the first in detail account that relates the development of visual images to innovations in art, communication, scientific research, and technological advance.
Nature Exposed to our Method of Questioning explores how we create our cultural assumptions about nature, culture and ourselves.
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences: Basic and Clinical Perspectives Volume 17 Issue 3, Special editor: Amy Ione
Introduction by Amy Ione
Table of Contents and More info
Visit Diatrope Books, a branch of The Diatrope Institute. The bookstore specializes in publications that focus on art, science, technology, and trace the contours of thought. Diatrope Books is always happy to search for and special order hard-to-find books in the field.
"Nothing has changed the nature of [humans] so much as the loss of silence, The invention of printing, technics, compulsory education--nothing has so altered man as this lack of relationship to silence, this fact that silence is no longer taken for granted, as something natural as the sky above or the air we breathe. Man who has lost silence has not merely lost one human quality but his whole structure has been changed thereby."
Knowledge of Time, Max Picard, 1948
