
Pacific Science Center Galileo's fingers, tooth found - just in time for Int. Year Of Astronomy -
Source: news.yahoo.com
Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.

Pacific Science Center Changes in Pacific Science Center's Multispecies Aquarium Community
Source: pacscilife.blogspot.com
PacSciLife: A peek behind the scenes of Pacific Science Center’s Life Sciences Department including the latest news from our famous Tropical Butterfly House, Naked Mole Rat colony, Puget Sound Tidepool, Insect Village, reptiles, amphibians, horticultural displays and much, much more.

Pacific Science Center Science headline of the day: Tracking a mass extinction via mastodon poop
Source: arstechnica.com
The mammoths and mastodons that used to roam North America went extinct during a time of rapid climate changes and the arrival of humans. A study tracks the decline of these massive herbivores via an organism ...

Pacific Science Center Join us Sat. 11/21 at 1:30p for a great family-friendly lecture about nearby stars that might have planets with intelligent life!
Source: www.pacsci.org
The Lives of Stars by Dr. Ken Croswell Saturday, November 21, 2009, 1:30 p.m. Pacific Science Center The stars that speckle the sky have long fascinated humanity, but only in the past century have astronomers figured out how stars are born, live, and die. Now we can use that knowledge to address the...

Pacific Science Center Pacific Science Center is hiring: Sr. Accountant, Guest Services Mgr, Database Mgr
Source: www.pacsci.org

Pacific Science Center Bellevue students giving their all at the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center!
Students from Mr. Cox's Environmental Studies classes helped transplate hundreds of plants today!
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Pacific Science Center See the unveiling of the new Hubble/Chandra/Spitzer images on Q13Fox tonight at 10 p.m. with commentary by our own Alice Enevoldsen

Pacific Science Center We unveiled two new images from the Hubble telescope today. http://networkedblogs.com/p18217979
Source: networkedblogs.com

Pacific Science Center Science headline of the day: "Study Paints Sabertooths as Relative Pussycats"
Source: bit.ly
Though their long teeth look fearsome, male sabertooth cats may have actually been less aggressive than their feline cousins, a new study finds.

Pacific Science Center Saddness, medical mystery in Pacific Science Center's Naked Mole-Rat colony.

Pacific Science Center
Join award winning children's author Mary Maden at The Seattle Times Thursday
November 19 at 7 p.m.
Location:The Fairview Auditorium at 1120 John St, Seattle, WA 98109
Time:7:00PM Thursday, November 19th

Pacific Science Center Science headline of the day (so far): "Strange Worms Discovered Eating Dead Whales"
Source: news.yahoo.com
Some truly strange creatures can be found on the ocean seafloor, and boneworms are among the most bizarre - they have no eyes or mouth and feast on the bones of dead whale carcasses.

Pacific Science Center Consumption Illustrated - Nice story about Chris Jordan: Running The Numbers from Sightline Institute.
Source: daily.sightline.org
That's exactly what Seattle artist Chris Jordan does with his manipulated photographs depicting, well, stuff. Stuff in massive quantities--stuff in the quantities that we routinely produce, use, and toss it away.

Pacific Science Center Leonid Meteor Shower should be quite good Tuesday night (11/17)...assuming the sky is clear.
Source: meteorshowersonline.com
Forecast for 2009: Astronomers are predicting that the Leonids could experience an outburst of about 500 per hour on November 17. Although Asia is favored for the outburst, observations are encouraged around the world on the mornings of November 17 and 18, as better than normal rates could be seen. ...























