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week's edition include:
** Not for Public Display: Backstage at the American Museum of Natural
History
From cutting-edge cryogenic tissue storage to decades-old, handmade,
fossil-preparation equipment to the Big Bone Room, we learned how the
museum helps discover, advance and preserve the knowledge it is best known
for putting on display
** Radar reveals extent of buried ancient Egyptian city
An Austrian archaeological team has used radar imaging to determine the
extent of the ruins of the one time 3,500-year-old capital of Egypt's
foreign occupiers
** Discovery said to offer insights into early evolution of humans
A Kent State University anthropologist says humans walked upright hundreds
of thousands of years before previously thought, smashing beliefs about the
famous "Lucy" skeleton
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** New clues restart man's search for Babe Ruth's piano
For almost a decade, Kevin Kennedy has searched for proof that Babe Ruth's
upright piano sank to the bottom of Willis Pond in Sudbury
** Creating art from birds, bugs, and bones
The materials from which more than 30 contemporary artists from all over
the world make their art are from formerly living things, such as silkworm
cocoons, porcupine bones, octopus tentacles, and cockroach wings
** 'Museum under the sea' discovered at Gallipoli
A sonar survey also helped archaeologists find the wreck of British
destroyer HMS Lewis, along with shrapnel from lead bullets fired by Turkish
snipers at Anzac troops as they swam in the sea
** Diggers discover Phoenician army complex in Cyprus
Buildings overlooking a previously discovered Phoenician complex more than
2,000 years old were found at the ancient city of Idaliona
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** Man with 867 pinball machines dreams of opening museum
In his vision, the National Pinball Museum would be 10,000 square feet of
pinhead heaven (pinhead is the term for pinball lovers)
** Ancient legends once walked among early humans?
Wild, hairy, folks who fought griffons and nomads — have paleontologists
unearthed mythic figures of folklore?
** Iowa museum alters Gulf exhibit for oil spill
The Gulf exhibit will not open as a celebration of a vibrant, life-filled
Gulf; instead it will be empty and completely devoid of life
** German cathedral bones 'are Saxon queen Eadgyth'
Scientists have revealed that they think bones found in a German cathedral
are those of one of the earliest members of the English royal family
** Former nuclear physicist gives National Museum of Scotland £1 million
The investment management company magnate, known for his love of
architecture, science, aviation and sport, will fund the Discoveries
gallery after being "amazed" by the "tremendous progress" of the project at
the Edinburgh building
** Area Grandmother Comes Forward As 'Banksy'
At a press conference Tuesday, 89-year-old Rose Biggin, a grandmother from
the Camden Town neighborhood of North London, announced that she was in
fact the internationally renowned graffiti artist known only as Banksy
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** Stonehenge visitor centre axed in £73 million round of cuts
The Stonehenge visitor centre, which was lauded as being "badly needed"
when it was revealed in October 2009, has been axed as part of government
spending cuts
** Smithsonian Commons Prototype
This project is just starting, and depending on who you are and how much
you follow digital culture, the idea of a digital commons, let alone an
institutional strategy based on building one, can be hard to grasp
** World’s oldest fig wasp revealed
This means that the complex relationship that exists today between the fig
wasps and their host trees developed more than 34 million years ago and has
remained unchanged since then
** Seattle museum hoping to land space shuttle
There's no guarantee Seattle will get one of three shuttles - the
Enterprise, Endeavor or Atlantis - but the museum must have the building
finished by July 2011 to be considered
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** National Museum in Warsaw director under fire from within
The majority of staff, supported by all the art curators and heads of
conservation, are urging Piotr Piotrowski to resign
** Tate Britain lifts the veil on Boyd bride
The work shows an Aboriginal woman in Western bridal attire as she bends
over a creek, her arms outstretched and her oversized hands grasping
towards the shrubbery around her
** Should the Getty merge its president and museum director positions?
Those who favor consolidation acknowledge that it was prudent during the
early years of the Getty Trust to have a fiscal and administrative manager
at the helm to sort out J. Paul Getty's bequest and set up the trust's
various programs
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** Making the Learning Connection
National Campaign to Promote 21st Century Skills and Community Engagement
** Linking data, linking people
National Digital Forum 2010 Conference
** National Fossil Day
The National Park Service and the American Geological Institute are
partnering to host the first National Fossil Day on October 13, 2010 during
Earth Science Week
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