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DNA Tests Uncover Sushi Fraud At Restaurants

Photo: Is that really tuna? ( LFL16 on Flickr) The next time you order tuna at a sushi restaurant - watch out! - it may not be what you think it is. A team of scientists from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History conducting a genetic research project found that more than half of tuna ordered from 31 restaurants were "misrepresented" or selling endangered southern...

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Spider Silk

The first-ever tapestry made from spider silk is gorgeous golden yellow in color.

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It’s a grolar, the climate-change polar bear

POLAR bears face a new threat besides melting ice — male grizzly bears are moving into their territories, competing for food and are even mating with their females.

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Another reason I'm glad to be a vegetarian

Sushi fraud: Apparently, if you don't walk around fingerprinting the DNA of your fish--the database is, hilariously, FISH-BOL--you run the risk of ordering tuna and instead receiving escolar, "a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge," or an endangered species of tuna. "[R]esearchers from Columbia University...

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Theater Review | New Jersey: Sailors and Mates, at Liberty

In the Paper Mill Playhouse production of the ’40s musical “On the Town,” the female characters let loose.

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Celebrating Darwin online

Originally posted 9 January Next month will mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, the man who had perhaps the greatest idea of all time. This week, Melvyn Bragg is doing a four part special series(”Darwin: The Genius of Evolution”) of his excellent BBC Radio 4 program “In our Time” on Darwin which you can download and listen to on your pod. Even more stunning...

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The Grooms Wore Matching Tuxedos [Open Caption]

[Jimmy Fallon and Joseph Gordon-Levitt look like a tiny gay wedding cake topper with their pose at the American Museum of Natural History's Museum Gala last night. Image via Getty]

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Endangered Tuna Plated In Sushi Restaurants

Image Caption: Yellow fin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and short-beaked common dolphin in a diorama of the eastern tropical Pacific at the American Museum of Natural History’s Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Live. Credit: R. Mickens/AMNH

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Travel The Silk Road In New York City - Wired News

On November 14th The American Museum of Natural History opened a new exhibit called “Traveling The Silk Road: Ancient Pathway To The Modern World.” I ...

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The Museum Gala at AMNH

Last night we went to The Museum Gala at the American Museum of Natural History . I have fond memories of visiting this museum when I was a kid; it's always great fun to back as a grown-up. Cocktail hour in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda: The dinosaur skeletons are as giant as I remembered: All smiles with Chappy during cocktails: Many cast members of Saturday Night Live were at the benefit: Dinner...

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Sushi Often Not What You Think

Endangered bluefin tuna ends up in sushi without being labeled.

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Business Committee for the Arts Announces 2009 BCA Ten - Yahoo Finance

The BCA TEN awards will be presented by Americans for the Arts this evening during a black-tie gala at the American Museum of Natural History ...

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Unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna

While most of us would never willingly consume a highly endangered species, doing so might be as easy as plucking sushi from a bento box. New genetic detective work from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History shows that bluefin tuna is routinely plated in sushi bars sampled in New York and Colorado. A quarter of what was labeled as tuna on sushi menus...

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Spider silk is the new pashimina

The American Museum of Natural History is displaying a 11'x4' tapestry woven made completely of spider silk. It took four years, required more than one million spiders, and cost $500,000 to make. via kottke.org

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Unknowingly consuming endangered tuna

New DNA barcoding shows that nearly a third of the tuna plated in sushi restaurants was bluefin -- even if it was not labeled bluefin on the menu.

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Human evolution's 'missing link' found?

Human evolution's 'missing link' found? - khevana7@gmail.com

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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Biography of Dr. Helen Fisher

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