This week we’re talking about museums, ethics, and taxonomy. Probably other stuff too!
Media mentioned
https://www.geocurator.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol7/geocurator_7_6.pdf#page=14
"FRONTIERS TO SCIENCE: FREE TRADE AND MUSEUM ETHICS" by Tristram P. Besterman, 2001
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69005527
"US curator denies smuggling scorpions and spiders from Istanbul" BBC News, 2024
https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20230926050719/https://en.unesco.org/cultnatlaws/list
The web archived version of the UNESCO database for national cultural heritage laws, which ....they've taken down from their website for some reason? I was literally working from this list last year so idk what happened
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-history-and-evolution-migratory-bird-treaty-act
The Audubon website's heavily summarised history of the MBTA; pay particular note to the blurbs under 1900 and 1916
https://www.ducks.org/ The Ducks Unlimited website. Note Conservation and Hunting as top two tabs.
https://www.ducks.ca/about/our-partners/ The Ducks Unlimited Canada website page of corporate partners! Count the number of oil pipelines!
https://pridesource.com/article/stomping-spots-queer-feelings-for-a-bad-bug-heading-to-michigan
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