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9 article(s) for August 2012

September Sky Calendar 2012

Posted 08/31/2012 by Marta Lindsay | Comments
September Sky Calendar (pdf) Highlights this month's sky phenomena and celestial happenings with local dates and times. (Mountain time zone). 2012 Sky Calendars August July June May April March February January
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- Space Sciences
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- Sky calendar
Cool Stuff In Image Archives- Bratley Collection

Posted 08/24/2012 by Library | Comments

Jesse H. Bratley image
Jesse H. Bratley was born in Brown Town, Wisconsin in 1867. In 1893 he joined the Government Service to be a teacher. Over the next ten years he taught or presided at schools on several Indian Reservations, In the 1890s, Bratley introduced sub-irrigation methods, …
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- Archives
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- Photography
Cool Stuff in Image Archives- Fieldwork

Posted 08/24/2012 by Library | Comments

Golden Eagle Fieldwork
Museum staff Bailey, Niedrach, and Landberg took several field trips to nearby cliffs in Douglas and Weld County to study the golden eagle circa 1935. They suspended bird blinds to photograph the nest with young chicks. Imagine using the bumber of this 1938 …
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- Photography
How The Smokey Bear Effect Led to Raging Wildfires

Posted 08/23/2012 by Steve Nash | Comments
Check out today's NPR article, How The Smokey Bear Effect Led to Raging Wildfires: http://www.npr.org/2012/08/23/159373691/how-the-smokey-bear-effect-led-to-raging-wildfires
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AChemS Day 1: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Posted 08/15/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
By Nicole Garneau, PhD If you are a fan of Shakespeare you will have recognized this quote from Macbeth. If you are a fan of Bradbury you will have recognized this from his 1962 novel of the same name. Either way, the theme is clear--a storm brings conflicting natures. In the case of Bradbu…
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- Health Sciences
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- Genetics
AChemS 2012 Day 2: The Flavor of Things to Come

Posted 08/15/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
By Nicole Garneau, PhD This is going to sound like a "no duh" story, but trust me scientists are really only just getting started to understand how expectations about what we are about to eat can actually trick our brains into thinking something tastes good or bad, regardless of how it "rea…
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- Health Sciences
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- Taste
AChemS 2012 Day 3: Sensing Brain Disease

Posted 08/15/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
By Nicole Garneau, PhD I'm taking a detour from my intrigue with taste to jump into the world of smell. We take our ability to smell for granted everyday when we eat, and also in the way that it affects our memories and emotions. But that's not what inspired this blog post today. Here is wh…
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- Health Sciences
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- Taste
AChemS 2012 Day 4: The Rebirth of Taste

Posted 08/08/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
We've all experienced the angst of a burned tongue, the subsequent moaning and groaning about it, the diminished level of joy when eating. And then, out of nowhere it seems, the tongue is back and ready for action. It's the miracle of life, um, kind of, at the cellular level, and it's al…
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- Health Sciences
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- Taste
New Work by James Luna @ DMNS

Posted 08/01/2012 by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh | Comments

What will James Luna do at our Museum? Before we get to that question, let us begin with some background. James Luna is a critically acclaimed installation, performance, and video artist whose work has appeared in the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), the Whitney Museum and The Ne…
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- Anthropology
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- Native American