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View of the week: Einstein’s brain
If you visit the Wellcome Collection‘s latest exhibition, Brains: The Mind as Matter, you will surely want to lay eyes on one of their most heavily-promoted highlights, a piece of Albert Einstein’s (1879 – 1955) brain. The sliver of cortex on display is not particularly illuminating, and far from the most interesting thing in the gallery space. […]
View of the week: “I Can Not Help the Way I Feel”
January 23, 2012
This bulbous, organic sculpture by John Isaacs, I Can Not Help the Way I Feel (2003), is just one of many features of the Wellcome Collection’s permanent gallery, Medicine Now. The life-like construction of polystyrene, steel, foam, wax and paint simply demands attention. Every time I see it, I can not help feeling that I shouldn’t have eaten that […]
Paul Nurse @ Wellcome Collection
September 23, 2011
Sir Paul Nurse, geneticist, Nobel Laureate, President of the Royal Society, and Director / Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute, spoke about his life and career with Professor A. C. Grayling at the Wellcome Collection on 22nd September 2011. The event was part of the Exchanges at the Frontier series, now in its third season, hosted […]
Brian Greene @ Wellcome Collection
March 20, 2011
Brian Greene, theoretical physicist, broadcaster and author of books including The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, spoke at the Wellcome Collection‘s Exchanges at the Frontier of science lecture series, 28th October 2010. To hear the lecture, click here. Photos by Sven Klinge (please credit photographer & website when using these photos)
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April 11, 2012
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