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  • Snowmass Site work

    Posted 02/28/2011 by Logan Ivy | Comments
    Sediments from the Pleistocene Snowmass Village site are being washed through fine mesh screens and the material stopped by the screens is being picked through to find small fossil animals.  This work is being perfomed by the volunteers and they are finding rodent teeth, amphibian bo…
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  • Astrobiology Collection: Miller-Urey Apparatus

    Posted 02/28/2011 by David Grinspoon | Comments

    Object #1: The Miller-Urey Apparatus

    The Miller-Urey Apparatus on display in the Prehistoric Journey exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. In 1952, Stanley Miller, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, had an idea for an experiment.  He had st…
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  • Planet Waves: Nothing but Zooms

    Posted 02/28/2011 by David Grinspoon | Comments
    Science has shown us the largest and smallest of structures, situating us in size.  We humans exist at a scale roughly halfway (at least on a logarithmic scale) between the largest and smallest structures in the universe. A human is, to an astronomer, a meter in length.  The…
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