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  • Creation of My Alter Ego Yo Pearl

    Posted 03/02/2011 by Nicole Garneau | Comments
    It was a typical day at the Museum. the sun was shining and the birds were chirping. I was walking through the offices of our awesome educators when I was introduced to Pearl. Pearl, at age 10 was full of enthusiasm. After only about 35 seconds it was clear to me that Pearl loved science. So…
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  • Science and the Law: Pizza physics.

    Posted 03/02/2011 by David Grinspoon | Comments
    A judge does his own experiment and concludes that pizza is, in fact, a solid. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/03/02/judge-performs-own-experiments-rules-that-pizza-is-in-fact-a-solid/
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  • Collections Prep Update 1

    Posted 03/01/2011 by Jeff Stephenson | Comments
    Aaron Spriggs, Zoology collections assistant, and entomology volunteers Barbara Bartell, Chuck Harp, and David Bettman have been working on rehousing and uncrowding the butterflies and moths, or Lepidoptera, to prepare for their eventual move into the new Rocky Mountain Science Collections Ce…
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  • Pest Damage

    Posted 03/01/2011 by Richard Busch | Comments
    Small pests called Dermestids caused this damage.  Dermestids are beetle larvae that eat dead and dried tissue -- that which makes up these moths.  The can also infest taxidermy mounts, animal hides and skeletal material.  As you can see in this picture, they are fully capa…
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  • Solar Flare!

    Posted 03/01/2011 by David Grinspoon | Comments
        Here is that beautiful, giant solar flare from last week (2/24/2011) as captured by NASA's Solar dynamics Observatory...
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