• Uniquely Blue, Uniquely You

  Posted 02/08/2011 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
  Welcome to a world where very small changes in a persons' DNA can have a huge impact on how they perceive taste. This blog aims to explore this and other findings from the live research study, Genetics of Taste: A Flavor for Health, happening right now in the permanent exhibit Expedition He…
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• Cool Science - Lice Need New Clothes

  Posted 02/04/2011 by John Demboski | Comments
  
  A new, very cool paper by some colleagues of mine, David Reed (Curator of Mammals, U Florida) and Jessica Light (Curator of Mammals, Texas A&M) and co-authors, suggests that humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. How did they figure…
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• Cool Science - Nabokov's Butterflies

  Posted 02/02/2011 by John Demboski | Comments
  
  NY Times article on the Nabokov's butterflies.......or to put it another way, the power of phylogenies. A link to the  full-blown scientific article. Many people may have heard Nabokov referenced in the Police song "Don't Stand So Close To Me".  Suffice to say the reference …
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• Lab News - Chipmunk Hanky Panky

  Posted 02/02/2011 by John Demboski | Comments
  
  INTROGRESSION AT DIFFERENTIALLY AGED HYBRID ZONES IN RED-TAILED CHIPMUNKS The latest paper on chipmunk hybridization genetics in the Northern Rockies published in Genetica.  Research supported by the National Science Foundation.
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• Year of the Rabbit

  Posted 02/01/2011 by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh | Comments
  What is Chinese New Year? Culture Lab explores this question at two public events in Denver: a festival at the University of Denver (organized by Denver Chinese School, in partnership with over 20 other Asian American organizations) and at the Southridge Chinese New Year celebration (sponso…
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