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Seeing Truth in the Archives

New Books in Science

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Do We Need 30 Examples of Diversity?

Museums often emphasize the idea that there's too much in their collections. The Met only shows like 5% of what they are, so 1%. Exactly. If you don't have enough, then all you're getting is random information. And I look at, you know, we have vast natural history collections here. And I'm so many dead animals. That's not enough. It's not a scientifically valid argument to make.

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