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week's edition include:
** Excursions in a Digitally Fabricated Landscape
If you haven't quite wrapped your head around the concept of 3-D printing,
or haven't yet had a digital scanner wrap itself around you, now you can do
both at the Museum of Arts and Design
** History museum's baseball collection comes with questions
The 67-year-old Odessa man now owns a record-making 4,600-plus autographed
baseballs - three Mickey Mantles among them
** Lasers, Drones And Future Tech On The Front Lines Of Archaeology
Director of Archaeology works to bring 3D imaging, mobile technology and
geographic information systems to a field more popularly associated with
shovels and dusty brushes
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** Harvard's Semitic Museum is set for big changes
With a rich but checkered history and a collection that can look anciently
opaque and mysterious from the outside but is in fact full of wonders, the
Semitic Museum is presently on the cusp of great change
** Made in China: how landscape painting was invented in the east
There is an uncanny likeness between Leonardo's rocks, trees and rivers and
the rocks, trees and rivers that Chinese artists were painting centuries
before he was born
** X-rated Japanese erotica sets throats clearing at UK shows
The show was packed with visitors who avoided catching your eye and
occasionally made the kind of gentle throat-clearing noise signaling public
awkwardness among the polite British middle classes
** Viking 'Parliament' Discovered Beneath Parking Lot in Scotland
Historians had long wondered whether Dingwall was a site of a Viking
parliamentary gathering known as the Thing because the word Dingwall
probably originated from the word thingvellir, which means "the field of the
assembly"
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** 'Nazi loot' is in major National Gallery show
An unfinished portrait by Gustav Klimt used as the centrepiece of the
National Gallery's major new exhibition is loot stolen by the Nazis,
according to a leading expert
** Sheikha revealed as the most powerful mover in world art
The 30-year-old mother-of-three is the head of Qatar's museum authority, and
recently hit the headlines when she spent £158m on Cézanne's The Card
Players, making it the most expensive painting ever bought at auction
** Spice Up Your Dating Life With a 29-Foot Tapeworm
Billing itself as the only establishment in the world entirely devoted to
parasites, the Meguro Parasitological Museum has become a popular offbeat
attraction in a relatively quiet Tokyo neighborhood
** 'Nail down the tongue': Ancient magician's curse found
A lead curse tablet, dating back around 1,700 years and probably written by
a magician, has been discovered in a collapsed Roman mansion in Jerusalem,
archaeologists report
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** 2 killed after museum's WWII-era plane crashes
The plane, dubbed the "Galveston Gal," was manufactured in 1944 and
converted to a two-seat, dual control TF-51 while serving in the El
Salvadoran Air Force in the 1960s, according to the museum's website
** Famed museum could fall victim to Detroit bankruptcy
There are few places where the former majesty of the US auto industry is
more keenly captured than among the Diego Rivera murals at the Detroit
Institute of Arts
** Psychiatric museum seeks asylum
The Porirua Hospital Museum houses a collection that tracks more than 150
years of mental health services in New Zealand - irreplaceable artefacts now
under threat
** The Clovis Point and the Discovery of America's First Culture
More than 10,000 Clovis points have been discovered, scattered in 1,500
locations throughout most of North America; Clovis points, or something
similar, have turned up as far south as Venezuela
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** 2 Mississippi museums to take on its turbulent history
Mississippi breaks ground Thursday on side-by-side museums that are expected
to break ground of their own in how they depict the Southern state once
rocked by racial turmoil, one promising a frank focus on civil rights and
the other a sweep of history from pre-European settlements to Elvis Presley
and more
** RFK may have swiped JFK's missing brain
James Swanson's conclusion is that Robert Kennedy did take his brother's
brain - not to conceal evidence of a conspiracy but perhaps to conceal
evidence of the true extent of President Kennedy's illnesses, or perhaps to
conceal evidence of the number of medications that President Kennedy was
taking
** Researchers create indelible record on mankind for aliens to someday
find
Scientists in Germany and The Netherlands have determined that by using
tungsten and silicon nitride as a storage medium, they can store data that
will last from a million to a billion years
** DC museums welcome back visitors, take stock of losses
The Smithsonian attractions lost about $2.8 million in revenue from visitors
since Oct. 1 with many tourists planning their trips long in advance and
being disappointed by the two week closure
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** Museum wants you to help crowdfund next year's movie exhibit
In a budgetary sign of the times, the N.C. Museum of History is taking a
bake sale approach to paying for an upcoming exhibit
** Scientists Teach Sign Language To Gorilla-Suit-Wearing Man
Scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center told reporters
that Brian, a western Kansas-born gorilla-costumed male living in their
facility, has already learned well over 250 words in sign language,
including all 26 letters of the alphabet, basic greetings, and even several
short, simple phrases (satire)
** Archaeologists rediscover the lost home of the last Neanderthals
A record of Neanderthal archaeology, thought to be long lost, has been
re-discovered by NERC-funded scientists working in the Channel island of
Jersey
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** WMA 2014 Annual Meeting
The Western Museums Association (WMA) is formally announcing a request for
session proposals for the 2014 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada to be
held on Sunday, October 5, through Wednesday, October 8, 2014.
** Call for Artists: BorderBody - Mixing Cities
International video-art, photography, installation and performing art
festival
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