Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

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In scientific archives the world over, ghosts of time and space lurk. Collected by long-dead …

In scientific archives the world over, ghosts of time and space lurk. Collected by long-dead naturalists and biologists, each collected specimen is a window into the moment of its creation โ€” and the centuries of science that followed.

In a dispatch from the entomological archives, writer and researcher A’liya Spinner tells us of how the preservation of bee specimens across centuries allows us to embrace the temporal expanse of what came before us & leave good records for those who follow. https://longnow.org/ideas/the-three-century-lifespan-of-the-modern-bee/

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