The entrance to Amsterdam’s Artis Zoo is flanked by two large stately buildings. One houses the planetarium, and the other a nice restaurant. Since 2014, the restaurant shares its building …
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Games & toysScience Everywhere
Novelty Automation’s clever satirical machines
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenNovelty Automation is a quirky arcade, and an art project by engineer and artist Tim Hunkin. All the machines are unique, one-of-a-kind, working games.
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MusicMusicians and ScientistsScience in Art & Culture
Daphne Oram’s Oramics Machine
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenIn early November I visited the Science Museum in London, to see the Oramics exhibit. Oramics is a musical technique developed by Daphne Oram in the late 1950s, while she …
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Science EverywhereWriting, images, and storytelling
Photographing the science museum
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenIs a science museum photogenic? On Utata, an online salon for photographers, I found this lovely piece about photographing science and natural history museums, by Meera Sethi: “What I’m trying …