Cabinet of Wonders

Finding the Early Age of Enlightenment in the modern world

Sunday, February 23, 2014

The Myth of Fingerprints

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So I came across my own post on fingerprints , from way back in 2008, and was suddenly captivated.  I wanted to find more out about spider...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

Environment in a Book

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  Yusuke Oono, a Japanese artist, has discovered an amazing way to take the book form and make little environments out of it.  He cal...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

Found Poem

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To Walter de la Mare The children who explored the brook and found A desert island with a sandy cove (A hiding place, but very ...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Winning Pictures from the Contest

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Here they are, with the first place winner, courtesy of Rhea Ewing , a truly elegant image of the Steam Beast. This is followed closely by...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Contest!

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I’m holding a contest.  Not just any contest, but a contest wherein people make art about one of the mechanical characters in ...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Getting Published

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Well, it happened.  I got published. I finally finished the extensive edits on my novel, Songs for a Machine Age , which will be coming ...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

When I'm Old and Rich

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For some reason recently I've been getting into a lot of conversations about what-ifs with my kids. Weirdly, though, it's not just...
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Heather McDougal
I am a writer and lover of oddities. In 2007 I started the Cabinet of Wonders, a compendium of bizarre objects and interesting thoughts. A love of the Age of Reason makes me see science in the light of magic, and magic in the light of science. And over it all, wonder.
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