Poland native among group that found ancient seal bones
The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A group of students from SUNY Plattsburgh recently made a historical find while digging near Lake Champlain.
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SIA Flashback – 1926 Ahrens-Fox
Hemmings Auto Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Well, would you look at this: I ran across an Ahrens-Fox fire engine last month at the New York State Museum, and now we run across a driveReport on a 1926 Ahrens-Fox in SIA #57, June 1980. Ray Scroggins gives us a brief impression of how beastly these trucks were (180-inch wheelbase and a 12,000-pound [...]
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Four-Links – Fords of the Fifties, Toyota auto show, more early snowmobiles, Edmunds-White House cash for clunkers spat
Hemmings Auto Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
* Over at Dean’s Garage, they uploaded a whole cache of 1950s Ford photos, courtesy Mike Parris and Howard Fisher, the former of which wrote the book, “Fords of the Fifties.” Lot of great stuff from Ford’s archives there, including the above concept model, which seemed to carry the name Muroc – a neat tidbit [...]
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More cars from the New York State Museum
Hemmings Auto Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
While seeing the Hungerford Rocket Car was the highlight of my recent visit to the New York State Museum, the rest of the museum offered enough exhibits and displays to capture my interest for several hours. It helped, of course, that I could ogle a few other vehicles while there. Jim O’Clair already told us a [...]
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The Hungerford Rocket Car lives!
Hemmings Auto Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Okay, this one wasn’t too difficult to find. Even before I ran the SIA Flashback on the Hungerford Rocket Car (aka the Shirley Lois Moon Girl) Geoffrey Stein, an historian and curator over at the New York State Museum in Albany, had told me they had it there at the museum, where plenty of Flickr [...]
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Herculean tusk
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
ALBANY -- Officials at the New York State Museum say a mastodon tusk found in the Hudson Valley may be the largest ever found in New York. The tusk, measuring more than 9 feet long, was one of two excavated over the summer in Orange County. The oth...
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Mastodon Tusk May Be Largest Ever Uncovered In NYS
Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research under way at the New York State Museum indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in Orange County, may be the largest tusk ever found in New York State.
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Some lawmakers frown on museum spending
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Many see federal money for museums as pork-barrel excess in a time of record deficits -- one congressman says it's like making charitable donations. Supporters say the money is more needed than ever. To New York officials, the $3 million in federal economic stimulus funds they received to transform an old canal boat into a 259-foot-long floating museum was money well spent.
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Christopher Colmbus
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
The wife gets up one morning last week and while taking her shower muses on the word colony. Since Christopher Columbus was also known as, among other things, Cristóbal Colón , she wondered if his name might be the root of the word. Interesting premise, but apparently not so. According to the dictionary , the etymology of the word colony is from the Middle English colonie, from Middle...
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Day Peckinpaugh
tugster: a waterblog (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
As a kid living near Lock 28 of the then-Barge Canal, I might have seen this strange looking vessel. If I saw it as a 9-year-old in 1961, a) I’ve forgotten it . . . but b) it was already 40 years at work in 1961. Day-Peckinpaugh aka Richard J. Barnes and Interway Lines 101, [...]
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The Dominating Mentality of Conquest
the sad red earth (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
There, I said it. Conservatives have sometimes been annoyed by my use of that term – dominating mentality of conquest. It is not the kind of language I like to use. It bespeaks a manner of, in this case postcolonial, academic jargon I disdain. Heidegger said that “Language is the house of being.” Jargon closes [...]
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Coywolves
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Another case of large mammal evolution by introgressive hybridization : Coyote + wolf = new breed of predator New DNA evidence reveals that coyotes have bred with wolves in the the northeastern United States, turning mice-eating coyotes into much larger animals with a hunger for big prey, such as deer. The linked article describes a study by Roland Kays and others, who went looking at the mtDNA of...
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Wolf in Coyote's Clothing
Science Now (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Mating with wolves gave migrating coyotes a competitive edge [Read more]
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Calendar.09.22.09.
C-MONSTER.net (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Untitled, 2007, from the Departure series, by Daniel Everett. (Image courtesy of Daniel Everett.) **So y’all know: MacArthur Genius grants were announced this morning. In Chicago: New Approaches: Four Exhibitions of Current Work, a group show, at Sullivan Galleries, through Saturday. In Albany: Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York: A Triumph of Public Art at the New York State [...]
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Student finds prehistoric seal bones
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
A college student collecting mud samples in Plattsburgh, N.Y., found seal bones dating to prehistoric times, officials said. The 15 bones found by Jake McAdoo, a State University of New York, SUNY, student, include the tibia, jaw, a tooth and ribs, the college said in a release Thursday. Seal