Scientists who are changing the way we understand the world tell
New Scientist CultureLab their favourite places to seek
inspiration and reflect IT MAY be called The Museum of Jurassic
Technology, but the mixture of the bona fide and fantastical
celebrated in the Culver City, California, venue makes it feel
more like "a large installation artwork" to Alison Gopnik. "I've
recently been exploring the links between the kinds of
scientific imagination that enable us to construct radically new
theories of the world and the kind of fertile fictive
imagination that is ubiquitous in very young children's pretend
play. This museum perfectly captures that exploratory human
drive we see so clearly in both young children and scientists."
Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology at the University of
California, Berkeley Growing up in Brixton, south London, James
Lovelock says the place that most influenced him was the ... To
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