Museum & Science

(2020-10) , Museu de les Ciències "Príncipe Felipe"

SINCE THE OPENING OF THIS MAGNIFICENT BUILDING CONSTRUCTED BY THE ARCHITECT SANTIAGO CALATRAVA ON 13 NOVEMBER 2000, IT HAS RECEIVED 12 MILLION VISITORS, AMONG THEM LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. THE MAIN GOAL OF THE MUSEU DE LES CIENCIES HAS BEEN TO PROVOKE THOUGHTS AND REACTIVATE THE CRITICAL CAPACITY OF VISITORS WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF CONTRIBUTING TO THEIR CULTURAL KIT. TO ACHIEVE IT, THIS SPECTACULAR BUILDING OF MORE THAN 40,000 SQUARE METRES DEVOTED TO BRINGING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ART CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE, DEVOTES ALMOST 30,000 SQUARE METRES TO THE DISPLAY OF EXHIBITIONS AND THE DISSEMINATION OF SCIENCE AND CULTURE, IN THE AREA OF SCIENCE AND ART WHICH EXIST NEXT TO LARGE, FREELY-ACCESSED, RECREATIONAL SPACES WHERE SEVERAL FILM PRODUCTION COMPANIES, CONFERENCES AND SPORTS ACTIVITIES, AMONG OTHERS, HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT.

(2023-02-15) , Anonymous. , Yvonne Xu. , Germaine Chong.

(2014) , Timothy P. Barnard

How has Singapore’s environment—and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity—influenced the economic, political, social, and intellectual history of the island since the early 19th century? What are the antecedents to Singapore’s image of itself as a City in a Garden? Grounding the story of Singapore within an understanding of its environment opens the way to an account of the past that is more than a story of trade, immigration, and nation-building. Each of the chapters in this volume—focusing on topics ranging from tigers and plantations to trade in exotic animals and the greening of the city, and written by botanists, historians, anthropologists, and naturalists—examines how humans have interacted with and understood the natural environment on a small island in Southeast Asia over the past 200 years, and conversely how this environment has influenced humans. Between the chapters are travelers' accounts and primary documents that provide eyewitness descriptions of the events examined in the text. In this regard, Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore provides new insights into the Singaporean past, and reflects much of the diversity, and dynamism, of environmental history globally.

(2018) , JOEL SARTORE

หนังสือเรื่อง Together For Wildlife เป็นหนังสือที่ให้ความรู้เกี่ยวกับชีวิตของสัตว์ป่าและได้รู้จักกับเหล่าสัตว์ป่ามากยิ่งขึ้นไม่ว่าจะเป็นสัตว์ปีก สัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยนม สัตว์เลื้อยคลาน แมลง ที่จะทำให้ผู้อ่านทราบและเข้าใจถึงชีวิตความเป็นอยู่ ลักษณะพิเศษ สัญชาตญาณการเอาตัวรอดทั้งของเหยื่อและผู้ล่ามากยิ่งขึ้น นอกจากนี้ยังมีเกร็ดความรู้อื่นๆ อีกมายมายที่มีประโยชน์และน่าตื่นเต้น

(2023-03-02) , Yi-Hsun Hsu, Yu-Hsiang Huang, Jun-Tsong Lin, Yu-Chwen Hsu, I-Zu Su, Chao-Ling Kuo and Chen-Yu Wei , Chen-Yu Wei

The formation of life relies on suitable envaronmental conditions. A stable envaronment facilitates the continuations of life. Geological records indicate that the Earth has experienced five mass extinctions. in spite of these mass extinction events, there are still tens of millions of species living on Earth. How was the Earth able to maintain biodiversity after following the five extinction events? As life looked for escape route into new areas, it became used to it's new environment, eventually evolving into new species of flora and fauna. This is how biodiversity on Earth today was created.

(2017) , Anna Tsing , Heather Swanson , Elaine Gan , Nils Bubandt

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent "arts of living." These essays posit critical and creative tools for survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key themes that also serve as the publication's two openings: Ghosts, or landscaped haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality.