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week's edition include:
** Tiny creatures with hip names
Take Gnathia marleyi, a tiny crustacean named this summer after reggae
legend Bob Marley, or the ground beetle Agra schwarzeneggeri which boasts
bulging front legs and reminded scientists of a certain action film star
** Archaeologists claim objects are earliest 'matches'
By using electro-microscopy techniques, Prof Goren-Inbar and her colleagues
identified tell-tale signs that the cylindrical clay objects may have been
rotated at high speed, generating friction to ignite tinder
** Stonehenge: a new dawn
It's also a symbol of proprietorial greed, its £7.80 entrance fee allowing
passage through a dank tunnel and a walk around, rather than among, the
stones; according to a random sample of visitor reactions, Stonehenge is
"just a pile of rocks", "smaller than I thought it would be" and a "rip-off"
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** Picasso's Life Inspires Films in Spain
While the Mona Lisa was eventually recovered and found to have been stolen
by a Louvre employee, Picasso was initially suspected of having taken part
in the theft, which affected his relationship with some of the other artists
working in Paris
** Nikola Tesla museum campaign earns $500,000 online in two days
The fundraising effort, called "Let's build a goddamn Tesla museum", was
devised by web comic The Oatmeal on behalf of the Tesla Science Center
** Ancient Havens of Reflection and Renewal
Finally, at 40, fed up with bowing and scraping for crumbs, he ditched the
job and took off for the country, where he stayed for good, reading,
drinking, thinking, writing under five tall willows and raising
chrysanthemums
** 9/11 museum, atheists spar over cross
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum's planned presentation of the
World Trade Center cross-shaped steel beam, which became a famous Ground
Zero symbol right after the September 11 attacks, is being legally
challenged by an atheist group
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** Rare birchbark canoe repatriated from U.K. to Peterborough museum
Transported in a sailing ship more than 200 years ago from North America to
England where it wound up neglected in a barn in Cornwall, the canoe made
its return trip this summer - with a bit of royal help - on a Canadian
military aircraft, joining the Peterborough, Ont., museum's permanent
collection
** Gun Turret Experience: A Sailor's Journey recreates Battle of North Cape
on HMS Belfast
Now, in a concept informed by letters sent by those who took part and the
memories of Royal Navy veterans, the technological whizzes at the
newly-restored London museum-in-a-ship are inviting visitors to experience
the emotions of the events of the Battle of North Cape in an immersive
resurrection of the Quarterdeck
** Archaeologists say volcano killed thousands of medieval Londoners
When archaeologists found thousands of medieval skeletons beneath London's
Spitalfields Market a decade ago, it presented them with some difficult
questions
** Judge dismisses Custer museum raids lawsuit
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a Custer-themed Montana museum
director who sought $188 million in damages following a U.S. government
investigation into alleged artifact fraud that yielded no charges
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** Indiana museum finds previously unauthenticated glass Picasso piece in
storage
Museum officials say it was cataloged as art inspired by a design for a
Picasso painting but credited to an artist named Gemmaux; that name turned
out to be plural for "gemmail," which is the type of glass used in the work
** Ninety-Nines' museum, headquarters promote women in aviation history
It is filled with mementos from aviation history, from the first female
pilot, Harriet Quimby, who got her license to fly in 1911, to displays of
women in the American space program
** Monster python caught in Florida Everglades breaks egg record
The discovery, announced Monday by the Florida Museum of Natural History in
Gainesville, is the latest confirmation that the giant exotic constrictors
have rebounded since a brutal freeze two years ago that experts estimated
may have killed off more than half of the population at the time
** Field Museum Technology Proves Endangered Sharks Being Killed For Soup
The Pritzker Laboratory at the Field Museum, which some of you may have
peered into during a visit, has developed technology to genetically analyze
shark fins even after they have been cooked and treated for shipment
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** Artifacts from Virginia-area museums in running for top 10 'endangered'
designation
About 190 million objects held by archives, historical societies, libraries,
museums and scientific organizations in the U.S. are in need of conservation
treatment, according to the Heritage Health Index study
** Downtown Seoul Fire Kills Four Museum Construction Workers
A fire broke out three stories underground at the construction site of the
new National Museum of Contemporary Art, killing four people and covering
downtown Seoul in thick black smoke
** Fossils seized at U.S. border in Detroit to be given to U-M
A botched border crossing 17 months ago has turned into an unexpected boon
for the University of Michigan's Paleontology Department
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer - Red-bellied trout are known for traveling halfway across the
country in search of a mate, but it's still a bit of a surprise when
hundreds of them arrive at your doorstep
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** Macabre Archeology: Forty Hectares Of Remains Found In Denmark Bog
Project Manager Mads Kähler Holst and a team of fifteen archaeologists and
geologists have been working to excavate the remains of a large army that
was sacrificed at the site around the time of the birth of Christ
** An Artifact, or a Payday
After nearly half a century as a museum's priceless artifact, the Yankees
uniform that Don Larsen wore while pitching the only World Series perfect
game will soon have a price
** Rust, Regeneration and Romance: Iron and Steel Landscapes and Cultures
10-14 July 2013, Ironbridge, UK
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** World Archaeology Congress session: Recent advances in dating and
chronology
The World Archaeology Congress in Jordan January 14-18, 2013
** Modern Antiquities: The Looted and the Faked
The Bay Area Art Conservation Guild and the Ancient Art Council present the
2012 BAACG Masters in Conservation lecture
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