Chapter 9 Blog Assignment—Scientific Looking

Here is a great example of a scientific image from an old Popular Science Monthly magazine that is an article about people being able to “see the unseen” of the human body via a “peep show” that shows how the human body works. What is interesting about this image is that it uses the term “peep show” which as we all knows is reference to the sexually oriented peep shows of the era (this would have been good for Tina’s blog) which appears to be from the late 1950’s.

This image also shows how science and culture go hand-in-hand. They are using sex to sell science and one of the photos shows a man sticking his head into the scientific “peep show”. Perhaps because science may have been boring to most people or that mainly men were interested in science they used the term “peep show” to draw attention to the exhibit.