Voyages is back for its second season! For our triumphant return, we're visiting a single destination: the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History, home of the fossil that has occupied much of my time over the last few months. We'll explore the evolutionary story it tells, I'll pull back the curtain on how we undertsand that story, and we'll celebrate the role museums play in making sense of the world around us.
At the same time the first modern geologists and biologists were arguing about the meaning of the distant past, Victorian architects were engaging in...
In the second part of our trip through Mexico City and the link between science and art in Mexican history, we travel back through...
Ninteenth Century France was a political powderkeg, a landscape of radical revolutions and imperial power-grabs. Its art was no less volatile, and while we...