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local ecologist (localecology.org blog) (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Update: Stay tuned for a review. With a comment (see below) to Garden Rant's contest - "Win the awesome book Flora Mirabilis " - I won a PDF copy of the book. Yesterday I received an email from Garden Rant's Susan Harris with details on receiving my prize. Source: Random House My comment: My plant geek credentials. Well, I studied for the Massachusetts arborist exam by exploring the grounds...
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
Mary Mangan is a scientist trained in cell and molecular biology in plant and mammalian systems, now using those skills in the field of bioinformatics, and is a co-founder of OpenHelix. Inspired by Luigi, she made a little trip and sent us this account. Last week I decided to alter my Sunday plans based on a [...]
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
Driving from Ames to Des Moines last week, my friend Tom told me about Harvard’s Glass Flowers — more officially the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants. It’s a fascinating story. They… …are a set of approximately 3,000 life-size models of plants made out of glass, with occasional bits of wire, paint, and glue. [...]
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The Bu Element (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
at Harvard's Museum of Natural History: a photo gallery with some interesting factoids.
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josiebean! (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
umm season premiere of Mad Men season 3 anybody'? SO GOOD. the boys are back in town! sorry Don, everybody knows the creative dept. has more fun :) i dunno if it's only my entire marketing class at Emerson who watches it, because none of my personal friends do (laaame), but i cannot help but get giddy over it and hope that my future in a prestigious ad agency is as over-dramatically entertaining. and...
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Wired Science (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
< previous image | next image >> Among the treasures hidden from sight at Harvard’s Museum of Natural History are the world’s biggest egg, Stephen Jay Gould’s seashells and Vladimir Nabokov’s collection of butterfly genitalia. So when the museum’s curator asked photographer Mark Sloan if he’d be interested in photographing the most unique specimens from...
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News from the National Academies (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
The National Academy of Sciences has unveiled "The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History," an exhibition of photographs by Mark Sloan that documents rare scientific specimens with fascinating histories. The exhibit will be on display from Aug. 3 through Oct. 31 at the National Academy of Sciences building. A public reception with the artist...
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Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
He is a curious case. Blinded in one eye in a childhood fishing accident, the budding young naturalist, E. O. Wilson found it difficult to observe wildlife, like mammals and birds, from a distance. His impaired visibility had changed things. Instead of giving up on his passion for the natural world, the young boy instead focused his sights on a more immediate subject … something he could view...
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Jeff Mills Coastal Vacations Club B (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The city of Boston has millions of tourists a year making it one of the top tourist destinations in the USA. It is one of the wealthiest, and very historically important and influential cities in USA. Its no wonder the town would need plenty of Boston bed and breakfast hotels to house its many guests. Boston [...]
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Veggie Chic (Free subscription) | 22/04/2009
Visiting attractions and museums can put a serious bite out of your vacation funds, and smart travelers are constantly on the lookout for way to reduce these numbers. It’s a big dilemma – you want to see as much as you can, but every dollar you spend is one less dollar spent doing something else. [...]
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Diary of a Dandelion Diva (Free subscription) | 02/04/2009
Last week I took my first-ever trip to the state of Massachusetts — I traveled with some colleagues to the ACLA Conference at Harvard. The format for the conference was pretty cool, and unlike anything I’ve experienced before. The presentations are grouped into seminars, and the seminars meet each day throughout the conference. So it [...]
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Neatorama (Free subscription) | 31/03/2009
Preserved plants don’t look much like their living counterparts after they are flattened and dried. The Harvard Museum of Natural History instead has displays of plants made of glass! Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolf came from a long line of talented glassmakers. As a hobby, Leopold began making glass flowers from illustrations in natural [...]
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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 02/03/2009
What forces are driving human evolution? Though scientists have witnessed natural selection of other species in nature and in the lab, our own changes have been a bit of a mystery. At the Harvard Museum of Natural History Thursday night, Pardis Sabeti of Harvard’s Center for Systems Biology explained how we have begun to scan our own genome to uncover evolution at work. To find evidence of natural...
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K Hawkins Photography and Design (Free subscription) | 26/02/2009
My friend and I visited the Harvard Museum of Natural History , last weekend. There were some special exhibits, like this one above. This exhibit was of the glass artists, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka , The father and son team that also, created the glass flowers, that are part of the museum's collection. This exhibit was of sea creatures. There are remarkable details in these pieces. After viewing...
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