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In Raleigh, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has been building its Nature Research Center, a brand new extension to the museum focusing not just on science but on how science is done.
Read More »TEDx Plans To Occupy Wall Street
Jonathan Ende is bringing the TED brand of futurism to the heart of high finance: the New York Stock Exchange, for TEDx Wall Street.
Read More »50 Years in Business and Still Growing
The dual focus of making signs and exhibits has helped Inc.
Read More »Detroit’s Hottest Start-ups
This scene is nothing like Silicon Valley, New York or Boston. We asked a few of the Motor City's finest to share the moments that define the way they work. Detroit's start-up scene may be as young and zealous as the start-ups that comprise it, but make no mistake, the city has a deep-rooted, roll-up-your-sleeves culture that has shaped its entrepreneurs from day one.
Read More »CEO Responds to Ticketing Nightmare
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Read More »Facebook’s Timeline Movie Maker, Starring Your Jacked Ego
The visualization tool brings home the point that your Timeline is supposed to be a survey of your young life so far. And it makes you want to upload more and better pictures.
Read More »Museum Plans to Put Scientists On Display
A rendering of the exterior of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Nature Research Center Imagine walking through a science museum and, among the usual displays of dinosaur bones, butterflies, and amphibians you come upon a series of windows into state-of-the-art research labs. Inside, scientists from nearby universities and veterinary schools work on projects related to biodiversity, genetics, nanoparticles, and animal health and welfare. In front of each window is a touch screen.
Read More »Infants Possess Intermingled Senses
What if every visit to the museum was the equivalent of spending time at the philharmonic? For painter Wassily Kandinsky, that was the experience of painting: colors triggered sounds
Read More »Photo Issue 2011: Bill Moggridge At The Museum, Shot By Joao Canziani
Bill Moggridge at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum , a reworking in progress. Photo by Joao Canziani See more of the best photos of 2011
Read More »Living with HIV/AIDS: 22 works from gay artists
World AIDS Day 2011 brings new exhibit to Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
Read More »Tyrannosaurs Were Power-Walkers
By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine The image of a Tyrannosaurus rex racing after a jeep in the 1993 film Jurassic Park inspired a generation's ideas about the extinct predator, but for decades studies have concluded that dinosaurs could not move quickly. An analysis now suggests that although big dinosaurs are unlikely to have been able to run, the animals could instead have reached a fair clip by power-walking
Read More »MAD Reveals Rare Jeweled Masterpieces
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City is revealing an intimate view of 20th-century artists such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, and Jeff Koons at its new exhibit, Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, which runs through January 8, 2012. Rather than featuring ...
Read More »A Tale of Math Treasure
There is much cheesy lore about the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse: that he popularized the word “eureka”; that he used mirrors to set Roman ships on fire; that a Roman soldier killed him in 212 B.C.
Read More »MAD Decks the Walls with Jewels in October
Art and jewelry collectors will have the rare opportunity to buy pieces from some of the most innovative jewelry artists in the world at LOOT 2011: MAD about Jewelry, the 11th annual contemporary art and jewelry exhibition at Manhattan’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). From October 11 through October ...
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