Down on the docks in Seattle there's a shop of oddities and curiosities where one can find things like a chapter of the Bible written on a grain of rice, an aligator boy, a gobblet of glass eyes - you know - stuff like that. So too one can find oddities and curiosities at the 2009 PASS Conference. One presentor who discussed the new hierarchy data type and the bill of ...

If you enjoy interesting trivia and curiosities of science, this is the book for you! The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities by Nicholas Bakalar, is filled with engaging essays about a wide variety of weirdnesses. Here's a few essays for you to consider: Maggot TherapyBad Morning MouthPlants that can Kill YouIs the Appendix Really Useless? My personal favorite was Worms that Live Inside You!

... of engraving, traditional printing processes, art history, and 19th-century ephemera alike should, like I did, fall instantly in love with Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities. Bookmaker John M. Carrera meticulously restored thousands of engravings from the pages of 19th-century Webster’s dictionaries, and has compiled an extraordinary visual account of Victorian ...

Lovers of the obscure and the unusual were given a treat this summer as “Hendrick’s Horseless Carriage of Curiosities” toured Britain in a carnival of the unconventional. Starting in Edinburgh in July, then on to Manchester in August and finishing in London in October, the carriage acted as a magnet for fans of the fantastical. Visitors were enticed to furnish this travelling ...

This Pictorial Webster’s Visual Dictionary of Curiosities looks amazing! It features more than 1,500 restored engravings of things like bell jars, zebras and Velocipedes that originally were seen in Webster dictionaries from the 19th century. I’m thinking it would make a perfect coffee table book for anyone from art lovers to science buffs, children and visual learners.

... Lab at RISD, a wonderful collection of flora and fauna specimens--most dead, some alive--made available for study at the Rhode Island School of Design. And in its corner stands a true cabinet of curiosities...an old library card catalog named Tiny Town. Tiny Town is organized and filled with teeny samples, all kept in identical plastic boxes. There's one drawer just for spider parts, ...