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Science Wednesday: One riddle that may have been “cracked”

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:00:58 +0000
by Katie Bowell, Curator of Cultural Interpretation In “breaking” news, it seems that one of the oldest riddles, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” may have been solved. The verdict? The chicken may have won by a nose (or a beak). Published in the paper “Structural Control of Crystal Nuclei by Eggshell Protein” [...]

Colorado Jellyfish

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:00:02 +0000
by Katie Bowell, Curator of Cultural Interpretation This past week, approximately 150 people in Rye, New Hampshire were stung by the a 40lb  Lion’s mane jellyfish (or “jelly,” which is the more appropriate zoological term) that washed up on shore. Lion’s mane jellies are the largest jelly species in the world, and the largest individual [...]

More Pop Culture Scientific Names

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:00:02 +0000
by Toby Swaford, K-12 Education Coordinator In response to Katie’s post on funny fossil names, here are some more memorable scientific names. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Elvis, and Ichabod Crane are only the tip (fictional or not) of the naming-new-species-after-people iceberg. The host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert, has a species of [...]

Science Wednesday: All the Cool Nomads are Wearing Black

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:00:59 +0000
by Katie Bowell, Curator of Cultural Interpretation During our latest heat wave, I decided to watch documentaries about places much hotter than Colorado, in the hopes of feeling better about my own temperature predicament. One film, Shifting Sands: The Story of Bedouin Women at the Crossroads, was fascinating, but left me with a nagging question [...]

From the Archive: Eloquent Autographs

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:25:42 +0000
by Leslie Drayton, Curator, Fort Collins Local History Archive This lovely autograph book belonged to Newton Garbutt of Laporte, Colorado, and from 1884 to 1890 he collected within its pages eloquent signatures, sayings, and words of advice from his friends in Laporte, Fort Collins, and Timnath. Newton sets the tone with the introductory inscription: Friends: [...]