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Upcoming Events

Posted 03/08/2011 by Paula Cushing | Comments

Paula Cushing
Wednesday, March 20th, 12:15 – 1:15 p.m., Lunchtime Lecture: Paula is giving a free lecture in Ricketson Auditorium on the west side of the DenverMuseum of Nature & Science. Paula will be talking about her research on arachnids in the order Solifugae. Spider Biology Class, May …
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Teen Summer Scholar Opportunity

Posted 03/08/2011 by Paula Cushing | Comments
Teen Science Scholar Internship: The 2013 Teen Science Scholars Program is open to students who will be entering grades 10-12 in the Fall of 2013. This paid internship is for students who can demonstrate an interest in science through their application, essay, and interview. A letter of recommendati…
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Colorado Spider Survey

Posted 03/08/2011 by Paula Cushing | Comments
The Colorado Spider Survey is a biotic inventory project assessing the biodiversity of spiders and other arachnids in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains ecoregion. The project has been ongoing since 1999. If you are interested in getting involved in this project, you can take a trainin…
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Solifugae Research

Posted 03/08/2011 by Paula Cushing | Comments
Cushing and her collaborator, Jack Brookhart, are involved in a National Science Foundation funded project to study weird arachnids called camel spiders (arachnid order Solifugae). These arachnids are important predators of insects and small vertebrates in desert and semi-desert habitats arou…
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Link: Wifi Light Painting

Posted 03/08/2011 by Ka Chun Yu | Comments
March 8, 2011 - Here's a project that explores and maps the topology of wifi signals. Using a 4-meter long rod whose LED-driven glow correlates with signal strength, the artist creates long exposure photographs showing Tron-esque light walls that traverse across the landscape. Thes…
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Link: Castle of Shadows

Posted 03/08/2011 by Ka Chun Yu | Comments
March 8, 2011 - This posting at BLDGBLOG points to a paper by Philippe Codognet who mentions a 600 year old precursor to a virtual reality CAVE. This castellum umbrarum or castle of shadows was described in a volume by Venetian engineer Giovanni Fontana from 1420. Codognet writes …
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Passenger Pigeons: Zoology Object of the Week (March 7, 2011)

Posted 03/07/2011 by Jeff Stephenson | Comments
Recently, the DMNS ornithology collection received a donation of two passenger pigeons. The pigeons were rescued from the auction block and came to us mounted inside a bell jar and are most likely over 100 years old. Why is this donation so important? Passenger pigeon…
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Cool Science - Living Through Another Major Extinction Event

Posted 03/06/2011 by John Demboski | Comments

Over the last few decades the scientific community has become increasingly more convinced that we are in the midst of or are on the cusp of a major extinction event. To put it into perspective, there have been five documented, major extinction events in Earth's history over the last half…
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- Zoology
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- Extinction
Fossil leaves on the Interstate

Posted 03/04/2011 by Ian Miller | Comments
The American West is the best place on Earth to be a paleontologist. For the better part of the last 500 million years, sand, silt and mud have accumulated on vast stretches of the continent, entombing spectacular evidence of past life as fossils. These sediments form layers, which are the pag…
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Real Pirates need Conservators too

Posted 03/04/2011 by Meghan McFarlane | Comments
For the last week, Conservation, Registration, and Exhibits have been busy installing Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah. This travelling exhibit features over 300 objects--each of which is checked by a Conservator before it goes on display. We check for any signs of new …
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