The Week-in-Preview: Naked Horseman Edition

Posted on | February 28, 2007 | Comments Off

Here’s a quick run-down of some of the more interesting science-related events for the coming weeks…after the break.

The Wagner Free Institute of Science: The Motion Study Photography of Eadweard Muybridge

Thursday, March 1, 5-7 PM. 1700 West Montgomery Avenue

If you like nudity and horses (and who doesn’t?), by Equus do I have I got a show for you.

The Wagner Free Institute of Science is hosting a lecture about the photography of Eadweard Muybridge (pronounced ‘Edward’ or ‘Eeedweird’), who was an early pioneer in the art of anatomical photography. Eaddie used three different cameras to get a frame-by-frame snapshot of an moment of motion. They’ll also have a copy of Muybridge’s seminal work Animal Locomotion on display. The lecturer is a professor of art and architecture at Williams College.

I remember when I worked at Penn, the former dean of the Vet School had a Muybridge picture series over his doorway of an ages-past dean riding naked on horseback. The Victorian Era was kinky that way.

Of course, you won’t go. The Wagner is too far off the beaten path for most folks, which is a shame. The place is a real gem.

Academy of Natural Science: The Scoop on Poop in its last weeks

The Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson always wanted to draw a dung beetle in a strip, but his editor never allowed it. If you like off-beat science, have children or simply never this particular Freudian stage, than this show is not to be missed. Runs through March 17.

Penn Museum: Mmmmm….Extreme Beer

Friday, March 9, 6PM. Across from Franklin Field

If you love beer, you love Michael Jackson. No, really, this is renowned beer hunter Michael Jackson, perhaps the world’s greatest human being. The Penn Museum is hosting the event, so it will cost you. But the price includes a three course dinner and beer. You can’t lose.

The Penn Museum has a tangential relationship with fermented beverages through archaeochemist Patrick McGovern, but to hell with science, this is beer!

Upcoming…

If you haven’t been to see Tut yet, or can’t seem to get tickets, there’s a talk on March 31 at the Penn Museum that might help. It is a daylong Saturday seminar hosted by leading Egyptologists. It’ll cost you, though, so become a member or matriculate quickly.

And, in case you didn’t know, the Penn Museum has an ongoing exhibit on Amarna and other pharoanic events that you might want to keep an eye of Horus on. (Note: I made it through without a single mummy joke.)

And one I can’t believe I missed…

Cartoons at the Mutter Museum. ’nuff said.

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