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- By Houston Museum of Natural Science · Friday, January 21, 2011
Museum Educators Open House
Tomorrow – January 22, 2011,
9 a.m. - 1 p.m.Thinking of including a trip to the Houston Museum District for your class? Interested in professional development opportunities at some of Houston’s coolest venues? Want a Museum docent or staff member to bring artifacts or demonstrations to your classroom for an extra boost b...
- By Houston Museum of Natural Science · Thursday, January 20, 2011
Find out what’s happening on the Final Frontier in a new series of free lectures offered by Rice University! The first – The Adventure and Wonder of Space Exploration with former astronaut Loren Acton – is tonight at 7 pm in McMurtry Auditorium at Rice’s Duncan Hall.
Busy tonight? Never fear! Subsequent lectures will be given by noted individuals wh...
- By Houston Museum of Natural Science · Wednesday, January 19, 2011
I would say that my feelings about ants are very mixed at the moment.
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</tr></tbody></table>As an Entomologist, I’m absolutely fascinated by ants. Who wouldn’t be fascinated by these ti...
- By Houston Museum of Natural Science · Tuesday, January 18, 2011
If you missed part 1 of my women pirates blog, fear not: you can still read it here.
Compared to the West, the Far East was much more accommodating toward women on ships. In fact, it was noted that pirate communities in the Far East had no settled residences on land. Rather, they lived constantly on their ships with their entire families. Thus, it ... - By Houston Museum of Natural Science · Friday, January 14, 2011<table style="margin: 10px;" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=right><tbody><tr><td
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... - By Houston Museum of Natural Science · Thursday, January 13, 2011
Explore an amazing underwater universe inhabited by larger-than-life creatures that ruled the oceans millions of years ago in Sea Rex 3D – now showing in HMNS IMAX!.
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</tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;">Mosasaurus hoffmannii skeleton on display at the... - By Houston Museum of Natural Science · Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Remember the first Jurassic Park?* The team flies into T. rex town on a helicopter, beautiful music swells, and we all went “whoa,” looking down on the massive herds of dinosaurs stampeding across the open plains of the island. But they could have made it even more impressive.
They could have looked up.
To me, the idea of something as big as a biplan...
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</tr></tbody></table>There are some amazing photographers that wander the halls of HMNS, and when we’re lucky, they share what they captur...
- By Houston Museum of Natural Science · Monday, January 10, 2011
Though we most often associate piracy with men, we know that there were circumstances where there were women pirates.
Famous Female Pirates
In the West, the two most famous were Anne Bonny A.K.A. Anne Talbot A.K.A. Ann Fulford and Mary Read. Meanwhile in the Far East there was a woman pirate who is arguably one of the most successful pirates man or ...
- By Houston Museum of Natural Science · Thursday, January 6, 2011
In 46 B.C. (or B.C.E. take your pick) Gaius Julius Caesar helped to standardize a solar calendar for Rome. In this new Julian calendar, the New Year began on the first day in the month honoring the god Janus. Janus was a two headed god; he could look both into the past and the future.
At the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, people around the United ...
