Archaeology of St. Catherines Island: The South End Mound Complex (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol 63, No 1)
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TYWKIWDBI has a particular affinity for stories about " cabinets of curiosities ." These "Wunderkammer" were storehouses of interesting things, and were particularly popular in the Victorian era. One of the great Victorian naturalists was Alfred Russel Wallace, discoverer of Wallace's Line in the East Indies. Today Discovery News featured an article about Wallace's personal collections...
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Bed bugs are on the rise in schools, NY1 reports. Though the city couldn’t provide any hard data on the number of infestations, officials told the station that the bed bug problem has gotten worse as the hard-to-exterminate critters have become more common . The city will only send exterminators to a school after a dead bed bug has been mailed to a lab — but parents and bed bug experts...
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Most birders learn through field guides that different raptor groups have recognizable body shapes adapted to the way they hunt. Accipiters, for example, have short rounded wings and long tails to facilitate short pursuits through close quarters. This is, in fact, a key to identifying many raptors in the field. Close study of raptors reveals even more subtle anatomical differences. A newly published...
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An article in National Geographic News has made four predictions in which human beings may, or may not evolve in the future.
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Six hundred dollars was more money, but it was still pretty cheap for a beautiful rosewood specimen cabinet, I'd have thought. It was full of somebody's nineteenth-century insect collection. Wait a minute -- how many nineteenth-century insect collections with 1700 specimens were there, anyway? That's a lot of work collecting. Maybe this belonged to somebody notable ? What happened with the cabinet...
Oil Is Mastery (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Science Daily: Ants Use Bacteria to Make Their Gardens Grow . ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2009) — Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities. Here's a new one to add to the list: the ant farmers, like their human counterparts, depend on nitrogen-fixing bacteria to make their gardens grow. The finding, reported Nov. 20 in the journal Science, documents a previously...
MRod says: (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A recent study by researchers from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History found that the tuna offered at many sushi restaurants ain’t exactly tuna. They ordered 68 samples of tuna sushi from 31 restaurants in Manhattan and Denver, Colorado. The result: Nineteen restaurant establishments were unable to clarify or misrepresented what species they [...]
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The Manhattan tradition of viewing the inflating the Macy's Thanksgiving Day balloons along Central Park West begins tomorrow at 3PM. Via Gothamist : It's that time again—time for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And one of the fun traditions to watching the balloons being blown up the night before. This year's Thanksgiving parade balloon inflation begins tomorrow at 3 p.m. and ends at 10...
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T here will be a new route for this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In fact the route is longer as compared to previous years. Another thing, if you want to witness the blowing of those big balloons, you can do so. You can witness the same on November 25, 2009 exactly, 3 to 10 p.m. near the American Museum of Natural History just off Central Park West between 77th St. and 81st St. This post...
http://www.sodazaradio.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (known outside of North America as Night at the Museum 2), is a 2009 American comedy film and the sequel to the 2006 adventure comedy film Night at the Museum. The film stars Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria, Christopher Guest, Alain Chabat, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais, Bill Hader, Jon Bernthal, Patrick Gallagher, Jake Cherry, Rami Malek,...
National Geographic (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, it's widely accepted that humans descended from apes. But where are we going? Scientists share visions of cyborgs, stout mothers, and dead ends.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A piece once owned by Alfred Russel Wallace will be on display at the American Museum of Natural History.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
[A] team of researchers from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History ordered tuna from 31 sushi restaurants and then used genetic tests to determine the species of fishes in those dishes. More than half of those eateries misrepresented, or couldn't clarify the type of fish they were mongering. Several were selling endangered southern bluefin tuna. More on Food
MSNBC.com: Science (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Darwin is going digital. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," the manuscripts detailing the theory of natural selection are being placed online. Charles Darwin - Natural Selection - Origin of Species - On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition - Biology
Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Southern Africa's plains zebras and the asiatic wild ass have been identified among animals whose migratory habits have been left in tatters.
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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
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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