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week's edition include:
** British Museum's secret treasures
Deep inside the British Museum, beyond the mummies and the marble, is a
secret stash of prints and etchings - and hardly anyone knows they're there
** Humans in the clear over mammoth extinction?
Arguments have raged over whether climate change or hunting by humans is
what drove the beasts to extinction and the answer, it seems, is a bit of
both
** Aussie museum reboots records with email archive
The museum, together with ninemsn, which runs Hotmail in Australia, is
asking the Australian public to submit emails - from the heart-wrenching to
the hilarious - in an effort to capture a snapshot of contemporary life
** Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past
The UK's first museum dedicated to the history of the computer is facing
homelessness after receiving no firm offers to save it
** Ancient gold necklace discovered in Peru
The earliest known gold jewellery made in the Americas has been discovered
in southern Peru
** Snort coke, shaft the environment, say boffins
A panel of scientists meeting at the Natural History Museum in London last
week detailed how the production of the drug and its trafficking affect
biodiversity and contribute to climate change
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** Museum tuataras sharing the love
It seems 111-year-old Henry is not the only tuatara to have been caught in
the act at the Southland Museum recently
** Field Museum Launches Shared Bike Program for Employees
It encourages employees to bicycle to work by providing showers and bike
parking, including a large, secure, indoor bike-parking facility
** Historic photo pulled from auction; origin being researched
A primitive image believed to have been made decades before the dawn of
photography has been pulled from an upcoming auction to allow further
research into its origins
** Iron Age bones found at Olympic site in London
The remains were removed for further study and one, estimated at 3,000 years
old, was exhibited recently by the Olympic Delivery Authority
** Museum says data of patrons was public
The Museum of Science has notified 140 patrons that their names, credit card
numbers, and other personal information were exposed on the museum's website
because of a contractor's error
** Study shows life was tough for ancient Egyptians
Evidence of a sick, deprived population working under harsh conditions
contradicts earlier images of wealth and abundance from the art records of
the ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna
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** Fossil faeces indicate earlier human arrival in N. America
This is the first time we have been able to get dates that are undeniably
human, and they are 1,000 years before Clovis
** Day of the remains
As skulls and other bones disappear from the display cases, if not the
collections, of museums across the world, the arguments used to support the
repatriation of human remains appear to have gradually won out over
arguments about scientific need and the value of anthropological collections
** Luxor residents clash with riot police over museum plan
Hundreds of residents of the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor have clashed
with riot police during a protest against government attempts to move them
to make room for an open-air museum
** Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code
It is not clear why its existence was occulted for sixty years, or why it
has come to light now, or when scholars will have free access to it
** Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison
Researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by
a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison's invention of the phonograph
by nearly two decades
** Time Traveller: Everyone In The Future Eats Dippin' Dots
In an announcement with far-reaching implications for the fate of human
civilization, a time-travelling man from the 22nd century revealed Monday
that, in the future, earth's inhabitants consume Dippin' Dots rather than
traditional ice cream
** There's A War On!
Find out about the significant collections, sites and stories that form the
war heritage of the Albury region.
** Great Circle Earthworks Museum to Reopen May 3
The Ohio Historical Society's majestic Newark Earthworks will once again
have a welcome centre where visitors can learn more about the Newark
Earthworks and the people who built them.
** Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Science Photography
Entries are now open for the New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science
Photography.
** Sabre-tooth Symposium and Workshop
The Department of Biological Sciences and the Idaho Museum of Natural
History at Idaho State University will be hosting three conferences during
the week of May 12-17, 2008
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