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week's edition include:
** British Library exhibition pays tribute to most amazing scientific
diagrams in history
A new exhibition will show scientists and statisticians have used images to
explain data for centuries, including Edmund Halley and Florence
Nightingale, who used a diagram to help drive through health reform
** 4 Priceless Treasures That Were Destroyed by Morons
Being a security guard in a museum isn't as exciting as Ben Stiller would
have us believe - standing for eight hours straight in an adult-size Boy
Scout uniform can get pretty tedious, especially when you have a
comfy-looking chair right there
** A history of the first Americans in 9½ sites
This week we report on the genome sequence of a boy from 12,600 years ago
whose family were ancestral to all Native American groups, from both North
and South America
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** A curiosity for fabulous things - Multimillion pound Jurassic museum
For the past 30 years, Steve Etches has investigated life and death under
the seas off Kimmeridge, a Dorset village whose coastal clay fossils tell
tales of marine life 150 million years ago
** A Billionaire Philanthropist Who's Big on 'Patriotic Giving'
Begin across the street at the National Archives, the site of the new
gallery, named after him, where Magna Carta, which he bought in 2007 for $23
million, is on permanent loan
** Glasgow business magnate reveals a rare empress robe
Valued at between £15,000 and 25,000, it comes from the collection of
Leonard Gow, the noted Glaswegian shipping magnate whose collection of
Chinese porcelain was one of the most important in Britain in the first part
of the 20th century
** Scientists digitally reconstruct Renoir portrait
Scientists have made a digital reconstruction of a Renoir portrait with its
original colours as they would have looked to the artist when he finished
the painting in 1883, before the red pigment he used had faded due to its
sensitivity to light
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** How Vikings gave bling to the world
Hardrada the Viking fought in Sicily for the Byzantine emperor, so the
Heimskringla informs us, he liberated the Holy Land from the Saracens, he
was fancied by an empress and he fought a dragon
** Evil entomology
New analysis of archived documents concludes that the Nazi SS were studying
insects with the intent of launching a bug-based attack
** Las Vegas sex museum goes dormant after operators' relationship sours
What started as an endeavor between a pastor and a pornographer to educate
Las Vegas about sexuality using art ended when the Erotic Heritage Museum
closed to the public
** Yoga as art?
About 20.4 million Americans practice yoga and with that boom in popularity
has come an explosion of scholarship - and an exhibit at the Asian Art
Museum of San Francisco titled "Yoga: The Art of Transformation"
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** London Transport Museum's massive depot to have one-off weekend opening
For an hour a day over one March weekend, transport enthusiasts will be able
to step inside some of the buses within the hallowed depot of the London
Transport Museum in Acton, West London - home to a 400,000-strong collection
which includes posters, engineering drawings, signs and ephemera
** First US-Cuba Museum Exchange in 5 Decades
Collectively, the exhibit offers a unique vantage point of the Cuban
experience - providing a glimpse of life in the U.S. through the eyes of
Sanchez to viewers in Havana, and sharing the viewpoint of artists who grew
up with the revolution to gallery-goers in Florida
** Jordan museum displays unique vehicles
On a hilltop of the Jordanian capital, a museum with some of the world's
most unique cars and motorbikes recounts a century of the ruling Hashemite
dynasty's elegant lifestyle
** Museum visitors to imagine they control submarine
Sailors from nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay are renovating control
panels from the submarine USS James K. Polk. and when the work is complete,
visitors will be able to sit at the controls of the Benjamin Franklin-class
ballistic missile submarine launched in 1965
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** U.S. troops saved art as the 'Monuments Men' of Iraq
After the painstaking process of cutting locks, the massive vault was opened
to reveal the Treasure of Nimrud - 613 pieces of Assyrian gold jewelry,
precious stones and sculptures that has been called history's third-greatest
treasure after King Tut's tomb and the Bactrian Hoard treasure of
Afghanistan
** Denver Museum Returns Artifacts to Kenyan Government
Museums hoping to return stolen cultural items to indigenous tribes that may
have lost them generations ago often say they are stymied by the difficulty
of identifying a "rightful owner" to take legal custody of the objects
** Ai Weiwei vase smashed in Florida protest
A Florida artist is facing criminal charges after deliberately dropping a
vase by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in an apparent protest
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini - An error in last week's horoscope has probably resulted in you
having a chance midnight encounter with a tall dark strangler. The stars
regret any inconvenience
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** Canterbury Quakes Featured In Nelson
In this exhibition the Christchurch events are remembered, with a particular
focus on the science of earthquakes, the human side of the disaster and the
recovery, with a strong emphasis on looking forward to the future
** Archaeologists and chemists trace ancient British diets
The ability to milk animals was a revolution in food production as, for the
first time humans did not have to kill animals to obtain food
** The Corcoran Gallery of Art May Cede Control of Its Collection
Facing mounting debts, a shrinking endowment and tens of millions of dollars
in renovations, the long-struggling Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington is
exploring a plan to give up its independence as the oldest privately
supported art museum in the nation to form a partnership with the National
Gallery of Art and George Washington University
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** COMCOL Annual Conference 2014
Theme: Collecting and Collections in Times of War or Political and Social
Change
** ICME Annual Meeting
ICME Annual Meeting Call for Papers: International Committee for Museums of
Ethnography. Annual Meeting
** Pimu Catalina Island Field School
The Pimu Catalina Island Archaeology Field School is a collaborative
research project with Tongva/Gabrielino tribal members, the Santa Catalina
Island Conservancy and California State University, Northridge.
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