Everything Dinosaur (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Prehistoric Animal Models from Safari Although all the team members at Everything Dinosaur are busy sorting out Christmas orders, we are still preparing for new products and working on ...
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | yesterday
The first human-like creature to pick up a pointed stick and use it as a tool to slay another creature changed everything. Instead of waiting for the accumulation of random genetic variations to impart gradually improving biological tools our creature could create tools itself. The advantage to humans of being able to organise, teach and use weapons to catch food may initially have been slight. That...
Dan's Wacky Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Due to rarely having anything interesting to put on this blog on a Sunday it will now become the day I reflect on how my week has been. Today I was sat inside doing not a lot, other than a visit to Gemma’s house which I wish had been longer. :( So, the reflections begin: Highlights of the week: The lovely response to the messages I sent to some people, visiting the Natural History Museum and...
Ramblings (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
My father is 75% hard of hearing, so when his alarm goes off in the morning to wake him up, even though it wakes me up all the way upstairs, he often sleeps right through it, and I have to go downstairs and wake him up. ----- 22-11-08 cold woke at 9:00 saw jazz trio at Natural History Museum* Lunch at V&A [Victoria and Albert Museum] Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park at night * Here is a video that...
最初的梦想 (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The third and last of Nature’s Darwin 200 special issues marking the Darwin bicentenary focuses on biodiversity and how to preserve it. For a listing of all Darwin-related content from this issue, see the Editorial. All of this content, plus web-only material, is available at www.nature.com/darwin. [Cover: Natural History Museum, London; Artwork by Nik Spencer.] 免费文献下载...
Corporate Engagement (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Originally posted 9 January Next month will mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, the man who had perhaps the greatest idea of all time. This week, Melvyn Bragg is doing a four part special series(”Darwin: The Genius of Evolution”) of his excellent BBC Radio 4 program “In our Time” on Darwin which you can download and listen to on your pod. Even more stunning...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
[Jimmy Fallon and Joseph Gordon-Levitt look like a tiny gay wedding cake topper with their pose at the American Museum of Natural History's Museum Gala last night. Image via Getty]
Sheena Beaston (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It's 11:30pm, and Maluca has just finished her set at The Fader's One Step Beyond Party at the Natural History Museum. If you think there would be any signs that the New York native was tired after a dynamic set, you'd be sorely mistaken. Known for her uniquely fast musical delivery, the Bronx cumbia songstress is a ball of energy, talking quickly about everything from jobs cutting limes to where her...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Convention of Children's Rights, UNICEF's Greek National Committee held a prize awarding ceremony in the Book's Hall in the center of Greek capital Athens on Thursday. Niki Goulandri, president of Greek Natural History Museum, profoundly touched with emotion, was honored with a special prize "for her most valuable contribution to children's environmental...
Dan's Wacky Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
An early start today to get to London as the Year 13 geologists were visiting the Earth galleries with the year 8s. Though it seems George was too late and missed the coach. Mike tests some vibrations. It’s lunch time! And you thought one was bad. The T-Rex. Yes, a mineral called Cummingtonite. Mike gets eaten by a hippo. It was a long and tiring day but pretty enjoyable all the same. It was...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Scientists have discovered a fossil skeleton that appears to be the missing link between the earliest dinosaurs and the large plant-eating sauropods, which could help bridge an evolutionary gap between the two-legged common ancestors of dinosaurs and the four-legged giants, such as diplodocus. According to a report by BBC News, the remarkably complete skeleton shows that [...] Related posts: Dinos...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Researchers at London’s Natural History Museum have created a social networking tool called ‘Scratchpads’ where natural historians can get together and share their data. Vincent Smith, Simon Rycroft, David Roberts and colleagues created the data-publishing framework for groups of people to create their own natural history-based social networks. Users create a virtual workbench to...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Swedish museum officials returned the remains of five indigenous Maori people to New Zealand on Wednesday as part of a broader move in Europe to repatriate remains taken from burial grounds.
Dear Kitty backup UK (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
From the BBC : Wednesday, 18 November 2009 DNA clue to save rare Darwin bird Sub-populations of the mockingbirds remain on two small islands A rare mockingbird could be reintroduced to the Galapagos Islands - with the help of some specimens collected by Charles Darwin . A team of geneticists extracted DNA from two birds that the famous naturalist collected in 1835. By comparing this to DNA from living...
Being a Mummy (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This is a topic that I have written about in various places, just not very much on this blog. Going to museums is a bit of a busman's holiday for me, so I have to admit that I tend to favour art galleries. I always find it a surprise when I talk to people and I find out that they haven't been to their local museum, yet alone the big City ones. Often, when you get talking to people its related to their...
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