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Cool Science News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Painting of Smilodon from the American Museum of Natural History. (Credit: Charles R. Knight, 1905 / Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Nov. 6, 2009) — Despite their fearsome fangs, male sabertoothed cats may have been less aggressive than many of their feline cousins, says a new study of male-female size differences in extinct big cats. Commonly called the sabertoothed...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of universals. At the time, I was working for Margaret Mead as one of her assistants.
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Project Me! (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Have you ever wondered what people eat on battlefields? I must admit that I’ve never thought about it. Yet that’s the premise of Cooking History, a documentary that has European cooks recreate military meals they served during 20th century wars....
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Climate Change (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Vice President Al Gore, Nobel Peace Laureate, venture capitalist, author, lecturer, Academy Award winner, activist, the man Denialists love to hate, and the man some others canonize as the path-breaking visionary on the threat of global climate change, has a new book out: Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. It has a [...]
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Before MREs and catering by KBR, what did soldiers eat on the battlefield? Cooking History , a documentary screening at the American Museum of Natural History next week as part of the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, considers the food that sustained soldiers in the wars of the twentieth century. Filmmaker Peter Kerekes asked cooks to prepare the dishes they once made on the front, from Russian...
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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Our science-inclined pals at Wired have collected a set of images depicted the world's islands as seen from satellites in space. Unsurprisingly, many of them resemble amoeba and other organisms on the cellular level. (Put it all in perspective with the Scales of the Universe display at the American Museum of Natural History.) The abstract yet oh-so-concrete images also capture volcanoes, coral reefs,...
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Watered Down Physics (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This afternoon, I attended a talk at Texas Tech University by John W. Moffat , author of the 2008 book Reinventing Gravity . Moffat, a retired University of Toronto professor who more recently has been associated with the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, has proffered a modified theory of gravity (MOG) that, he claims, can explain a great deal of astrophysical data without having to resort...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
GREEN BAY, Wis., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Business Committee for the Arts (BCA), a division of Americans for the Arts, has selected Green Bay advertising and design firm Arketype, Inc. to receive a BCA TEN Award for its "outstanding support of the arts." Arketype President Jim Rivett will accept the BCA TEN award at a November 19 black-tie gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New...
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PeteHoliday.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
This week’s required reading is as follows: New Ocean Forming in Ethiopia — Mother Nature’s contingency plan for melting polar ice caps. In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two [...]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Last night was a big night for me. I got to eat my first Shake Shack Burger, purportedly the best burger in Manhattan (if not...
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Geekologie (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I say yes, but Jack Conrad, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York , is arguing otherwise. Don't act like you know dinosaurs . I KNOW DINOSAURS ! "Doesn't matter," Conrad says. "There's no chance that any human alive could win." The T. rex's arms might have looked wimpy, but they were extremely strong. Each was about three feet long and,...
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Staring At Empty Pages (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I’ve always been interested in science and mathematics, ever since I can remember; I can’t tell you when it started, because it seems that it started in the womb, and that I popped out with solar systems and quadratic equations in my head. Some of my earliest memories are of my father taking me to the American Museum of Natural History , and the attached Hayden Planetarium. When we moved...
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The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
It’s no secret that Barack Obama has penned a couple of books – they flew off of the shelves during his bid for the presidency. In fact, most presidents have ended up writing their memoirs at some point after leaving the White House. But some presidents have chosen to write about the [...]
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The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
MON NOV 2 6pm-8:30pm • Free DISCUSSION: ACCUMULATION, DEVELOPMENT AND EXCLUSION: CHINA, INDIA AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM The countries and economies of China and India have grown exponentially in recent decades, but have left in their wake inequality, dispossession, and displacement. Panelists Partha Chatterjee, Duncan Foley, David Harvey and William Milberg will seek to answer questions and critically...
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COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Spun from the silk of millions of golden orb spiders found in Madagascar, the 11-foot long tapestry currently on view at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC represents a uniquely remarkable example of a rigorous, formerly obsolete weaving technique and the stubborn vision of a couple of enterprising men. The project—orchestrated by British textile expert Simon Peers and American fashion...
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khevana7@gmail.com | 05/21/2009
Human evolution's 'missing link' found? The skeleton of a 47 million-year-old primate that could indicate what our ancestors looked like has been unveiled by scientists. They have hailed the creature - with four long legs, a long tail and the size of a small cat - as the missing link which could help illuminate the early evolution of monkeys, apes and humans. Read More From Orginal Site
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tsherrik | 01/01/2009
Born in 1945, Helen Fisher teaches at Rutgers, in the department of Anthropology. She is a specialist in romantic relationships and the reasons people are attracted to one another. Before assuming her position at Rutgers, she worked in New York as a researcher for the American Museum of Natural History. She was at the museum from 1984 to 1994. Dr. Fisher received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado
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