Natural History

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• Reminder: Free Admission Days at Atlanta-Area Attractions

  
  Atlanta on the Cheap — Authority: 146
  It’s the first week of the month, which means it’s time to be on the lookout for free admission deals. I’ve posted these before, but it’s past due for a reminder:Museums on Us. Are you...
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• Scientists think killer petunias should join the ranks of carnivorous plants

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 637
  Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Natural History Museum believe that carnivorous behaviour in plants is far more widespread than previously thought, with many commonly grown plants -- such as petunias -- at least part way to being "meat eaters".
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• The strange side of world news at week’s end

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 554
  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Friday often brings some of the world’s stranger bits of news, from amusing to weird to hard to believe: Young people who are not yet of voting age, in Geneva, Switzerland erected the first new and relatively small minaret, defying the 29 November popular vote that bans them: ...
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• Artist Reaches Milestone, Measured One Person at a Time

  
  City Room — Authority: 783
  Jason Polan, a Manhattan-based artist, commemorated having drawn 8,300 New Yorkers, or one tenth of one percent of the population of the city.
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• Is Privacy Natural?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  “One is a lonely number.”   My Navajo ‘mother’ used to tell me this long ago while I was collecting anthropological data on the Navajo Indian Reservation, sent by the American Museum of Natural History in New York.   This slogan was speeding through my head recently as I participated in the taping of an ...
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• BBC ‘Life”- Latest clip goes to town with sound FX!

  
  Rubber Republic — Authority: 124
  Over the last 8 weeks we’ve been working on getting preview clips of the BBC “Life” Nature series out to wide online audiences. The latest clip has just gone live and I had to post it- the guys at the BBC have added some great sound FX to this footage of Venus Fly-Traps doing their thing. My favourite being the ...
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• Johnson-Jeffries Fight Set for July 4

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 468
  Jack Johnson will defend his heavyweight title against the former champion James J. Jeffries on July 4 in California "in the vicinity of San Francisco" in a fight that it is believed "will represent more cash than any other fight in the history of the prize ring."
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• Necessary

  
  Mapping the Marvellous — Authority: 112
  Epithets used by commentators and critics to characterise Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859): Page from The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the original omissions restored. Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow. London: Collins, 1958. earth-shattering ...
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• Reflections on Ken Burns : The National Parks

  
  Walking the Berkshires — Authority: 413
  Ive been watching the DVDs of Ken Burns latest documentary: The National Parks; Americas Best Idea .  Burns and collaborator Dayton Duncan have brought their cinematic eye and art to the American wilderness,  illuminating places such as the Grand Canyon - about which Teddy Roosevelt observed; "The ages have been at ...
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• A Favorite Bird: Red-Breasted Nuthatches

  
  Adirondack Almanack — Authority: 479
  One day last year I was teaching a group of elementary school students the basics of bird watching and bird ID. It was June, the end of the school year, and the morning was mild. Armed with binoculars, we crept around the end of the building, and our silence was rewarded by a family of red-breasted nuthatches ...
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• The Bathroom of Natural History

  
  Absolutely Small — Authority: 416
  Like many homes built in the early 90s, we have a tiny, dark windowless hole in our house known as a hall bathroom. Heres how it looked when we bought it, ugly shower curtain and all: Yeaaah. That had to change. But...to what? I remember it clearly: I was driving home one evening, and thinking about the new house. ...
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• Saints and Relics in the Medieval Gaelic World

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  [ December 11, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The first thought here is that weve got both saints and relics in the contemporary Gaelic world - but irreverence apart,  this is the title of a talk by Gilbert Markus from the Department of Celtic Studies at University of Glasgow, hosted by the Natural History and ...
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• Martian colony on display in Britain

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Dec 2 (ANI): A meteorite from Mars, with a sample of Martian colony, has been put on display at Natural History Museum.According to the Nasa scientists, snaps from a scanning electron microscope (SEM), shows a bumpy surface, which resembles a fossilised colony of microbacteria - a simple form of life.The ...
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• Big Moose

  
  Maggie's Farm — Authority: 644
  Caption and photo came in over the transom - By the length of his beard and the gray legs this bull moose must be over 10 years old. He appears to be over 8 feet at the shoulder hump … this fellow is ONE BIG BOY!  The picture was taken near Elliott Lake, Ontario, Canada on a dirt road, probably the width ...
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• Martian colony in Britain

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Samples of a colony of Martians have been put on display in the Natural History Museum, in London.
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• Global Kitchen: The Silk Road Through Spices

  
  gracenotes nyc — Authority: 423
  Next Tuesday, December 8th, I will be attending another Global Kitchen event at the Museum of Natural History. The last event I attended, The Magic of Pickling, was informative and VERY fun (I ate so many pickles I thought I would burst!). The next Global Kitchen event is December 8th - the museum [...]
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• Last Call for Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

  
  Frogs Are Green — Authority: 410
  In case you’re planning a holiday visit to ”the City” (what we locals call Manhattan), we want to remind you to go see the exhibit  Frogs: A Chorus of Colors at the American Museum of Natural History before it closes January 3. This traveling exhibit from Clyde Peelings Reptiland is fun and ...
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• Into the Dark

  
  Nature's Blog — Authority: 126
  Humans are not naturally equipped to deal with cold or darkness. We do not have enough body fat (in most cases) or hair cover to provide adequate insulation and our night vision is very limited. One can only imagine the stress imposed by these factors prior to the advent of modern technology; death from exposure or ...
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• Top 10 Things to Do in Pittsburgh

  
  The Travel Blog by TravelPod — Authority: 419
  Having just come back from a trip to Pittsburgh, I thought I’d give a round up of the best sights to see in case anyone else is planning a similar trip. I made it to most of these points of interest and can vouch for them wholeheartedly. Hope you have a fun time in Pennsylvania too. 1. PNC Park Dcashmans kids ...
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• Armchair Exploring

  
  Mapping the Marvellous — Authority: 112
  I used to have a Planet Earth screensaver, consisting of animal images and wildlife facts flashing by at random: “Only half of all polar bear cubs survive their first year out on the sea ice.” “The Tibetan fox lives on the world’s highest plain where midsummer temperatures rarely rise above freezing” ...
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