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

Episode transcript in HTML (download to view): https://pastecode.io/s/e7ye92tz 

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