{"id":63,"date":"2006-09-21T15:09:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T20:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=63"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:49:08","slug":"mr-wilsons-cabinet-of-wonder-pronged-ants-horned-humans-mice-on-toast-and-other-marvels-of-jurassic-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Wilson&#8217;s Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679764895\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0679764895&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=readingwith0a-20&#038;linkId=36a3035171a6a6a4dd8fe8ad6ccb4063\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71f56fkHhGL._SL1200_-150x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"228\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71f56fkHhGL._SL1200_-150x228.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71f56fkHhGL._SL1200_-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71f56fkHhGL._SL1200_-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71f56fkHhGL._SL1200_-768x1165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/71f56fkHhGL._SL1200_.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><b>Lawrence Weschler (1995)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In the non-Aristotelian, non-Euclidean, non-Newtonian space between the walls of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles exist bats that can fly through lead barriers, spore-ingesting pronged ants, elaborate theories of memory, and a host of other off-kilter scientific oddities that challenge the traditional notions of truth and fiction. Lawrence Weschler&#8217;s book, expanded from an article for Harper&#8217;s, is, at turns, a tour of the museum, a profile of its founder and curator, David Wilson, and a meditation on the role of imagination and authority in all museums, in science and in life. Mr. Wilson&#8217;s Cabinet of Wonder is an exquisite piece of &#8220;magic realist nonfiction&#8221; that will prove utterly captivating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Weschler (1995) In the non-Aristotelian, non-Euclidean, non-Newtonian space between the walls of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles exist bats that can fly through lead barriers, spore-ingesting pronged ants, elaborate theories of memory, and a host of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=63\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24,30,25,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-biography","category-consciousness","category-exhibition","category-philosophy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}