Tag: Museums

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May 27, 2014

Happy Birthday, Rachel Carson!

Today is the 107th birthday of Rachel Carson. Unfortunately she died too young, at only 56 years old, of cancer. Ironically one of her greatest accomplishments was helping to ban agricultural use the synthetic pesticide DDT, which was later discovered to be linked to breast cancer. Her accomplishments are too numerous to describe in this […]
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May 6, 2014

More thoughts on “(Re)extinction”

Thanks to Brad Lepper for bringing this article in the New Scientist to my attention. This is another opinion related to my recent blog about the debate concerning natural history museums collecting specimens. See this New Scientist article here.  Collecting of specimens for scientific research is an incredibly small percentage of the number of animals […]
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April 25, 2014

“Avoiding (Re)extinction” – Museums and the collecting of specimens
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February 10, 2014

OSU’s Museum of Biodiversity crawling with life!
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October 16, 2013

Today is National Fossil Day!
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September 24, 2013

Even more uses of the Natural History Collections!
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September 12, 2013

Passenger Pigeon Featured in New Exhibit
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August 29, 2013

Museum Specimens are Basis of New Research
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August 19, 2013

I Vacuumed a Passenger Pigeon Today

I arrived home after work one day last week and my wife asked "So, what did you do today?" I casually answered, without giving it any thought, "Oh, I vacuumed a Passenger Pigeon". As soon as I said that, I stopped myself and thought "Now THAT is why I work in a museum"! In what […]
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August 9, 2013

We Put the “Re-” in Research!