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December 2014 – The Ox-Born Bee

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Excursions into art and science. About the Bee (and me). About the Bee (and me). The Dream of the Unicorn, Part 2: How to Invent an Animal (I). December 17, 2014. In my last post I wondered what it means to discover something that doesn’t actually exist, or to describe something before we have knowledge of it. How much of the unicorn was discovered, and how much was invented? Works in scientific understanding. Analogy is sometimes called a predictive metaphor. Or “ effectrix of divine honey. Pliny the El...

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Wax Impressions – The Ox-Born Bee

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Excursions into art and science. About the Bee (and me). About the Bee (and me). July 24, 2014. The venerable institution of higher learning. I Fucking Love Science. Reposted a TED-ed video called “Why Do Honeybees Love Hexagons”. Writers of a medieval bestiary asked, “What architect taught them to fit together six-sided chambers with their sides undistinguishably equal? Indeed, waxed Charles Darwin, “he must be a dull man who can examine the exquisite structure of a comb, so beautifully adapted to...

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The Dream of the Unicorn, Part 2: How to Invent an Animal (I) – The Ox-Born Bee

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Excursions into art and science. About the Bee (and me). About the Bee (and me). The Dream of the Unicorn, Part 2: How to Invent an Animal (I). December 17, 2014. In my last post I wondered what it means to discover something that doesn’t actually exist, or to describe something before we have knowledge of it. How much of the unicorn was discovered, and how much was invented? Works in scientific understanding. Analogy is sometimes called a predictive metaphor. Or “ effectrix of divine honey. Pliny the El...

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October 2014 – The Ox-Born Bee

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Excursions into art and science. About the Bee (and me). About the Bee (and me). The Colorful Dead: Birds of the Moore Lab of Zoology. October 16, 2014. I recently had the pleasure of taking a tour of the Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College. It contains over 62,000 bird specimens of primarily “neotropical” birds–or birds from the New World. Most of those were collected in Mexico between 1933 and 1955 by Moore’s paid collector Chester C. Lamb, a one-eyed naturalist w...Trays of bright tanagers, a L...

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Critics in the Garden – The Ox-Born Bee

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Excursions into art and science. About the Bee (and me). About the Bee (and me). Critics in the Garden. July 18, 2014. Huntington Botanical Garden, Pasadena. I’m teaching Environmental Literature this summer, which I’ve subtitled Being in Place. Since I also coordinate the campus garden at my university, the California Lutheran University SEEd Project Garden,. Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition. CLU SEEd Project Garden. Kingscote Garden, Stanford. To put such ideas into practice, my class and I hav...

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July 2014 – The Ox-Born Bee

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Excursions into art and science. About the Bee (and me). About the Bee (and me). The Wax of Philosophy. July 25, 2014. I love Descartes’s description of beeswax, and while I just talked about it in my last post. I thought it was appropriate to invoke it again, since just yesterday my students and I cobbled together a DIY solar wax melter from bits and pieces around the CLU SEEd Project garden. I think therefore I am) should have been inspired by thinking about the properties of beeswax. July 24, 2014.

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Cesi’s Bees – The Ox-Born Bee

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Excursions into art and science. About the Bee (and me). About the Bee (and me). June 10, 2014. Cesi’s bees are hybrids. Of poetry and nature. Their hive is language. Their keeper, Federico Cesi (1585-1630). Was an Italian Renaissance scientist, humanist, and founder of one of the first scientific societies, the Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of Lynxes), devoted to the empirical study of nature using the most advanced observational tool available, the microscope. And Roman historian Pliny’s first century.

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February 2015 – The Ox-Born Bee

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Excursions into art and science. About the Bee (and me). About the Bee (and me). The Dream of the Unicorn, Part 2: How to Invent an Animal (II). February 25, 2015. Give us kind keepers, heavens! A living drollery. Now I will believe. That there are unicorns, that in Arabia. There is one tree, the phoenix’ throne, one phoenix. At this hour reigning there. I’ll believe both;. And what does else want credit, come to me,. And I’ll be sworn ’tis true: travellers ne’er did lie,. Another famous example of scien...

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bryan.b.rasmussen@gmail.com – The Ox-Born Bee

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Excursions into art and science. About the Bee (and me). About the Bee (and me). Author: bryan.b.rasmussen@gmail.com (page 1 of 2). Joseph Paregine’s Kingdom under Glass. September 17, 2015. Peragine, AMNH: Wapiti. 2010. In his artist statement. Both mission and method belong to an older conception of natural history, from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that has persisted into the present, such that looking at dioramas today is like looking at a vestige of the creation of natural history. Peragi...