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American Museum Of Natural History Event Honouring Brazil’s Rainforest-Hating President Sparks Uproar
A museum dedicated to conserving nature and Brazil’s far right wing president, who is intent on opening the Amazon rainforest to mining, logging and fossil fuel exploration while kicking indigenous groups off their land, may seem like odd bedfellows. And yet New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is slated to host an event…
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How The AMNH Is Using 3D Printing To Copy Dinosaur Bones
You’re a high school science teacher, and your class is learning about dinosaurs. You can’t exactly run to the local dino bone barn and buy some bargain bones for them to see first-hand. But what if you had access to a 3D printer? Enter the American Museum of Natural History’s education department, which is experimenting…
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An Awesome 1940s Photo Of Making A Cast Of A Giant Fish
We don’t know much about this photo snapped in 1940. It shows Ludwig Ferraglio making a cast of a fish called Acrotus Willoughbyi, but that’s about all we know.
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What Does The Moon Smell Like?
One of the things I loved about the AMNH’s Beyond Planet Earth exhibition was a seemingly gimmicky, but quite surprising device: a machine that allows you to sniff what the Moon smells like! It was… weird.