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We visited my friend and colleague, Dave Beck, while he was working as the Artist at Pine Needles at the James Taylor Dunn Pine Needles Cabin just north of Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota.
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We visited my friend and colleague, Dave Beck, while he was working as the Artist at Pine Needles at the James Taylor Dunn Pine Needles Cabin just north of Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota.
We visited my friend and colleague, Dave Beck, while he was working as the Artist at Pine Needles at the James Taylor Dunn Pine Needles Cabin just north of Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota.
We visited my friend and colleague, Dave Beck, while he was working as the Artist at Pine Needles at the James Taylor Dunn Pine Needles Cabin just north of Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota.
We visited my friend and colleague, Dave Beck, while he was working as the Artist at Pine Needles at the James Taylor Dunn Pine Needles Cabin just north of Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota.
The Science Museum of Minnesota building, constructed in 2000, sits on a bluff in downtown St. Paul overlooking the Mississippi River. The lobby houses the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Visitor Center.
The best thing I saw all night. She had more spraypainted dinosaurs attached to other areas of her outfit.
(best viewed large)
The last (and probably my favorite) of the duck photos. Things look really ominous for the poor guy here. (I'll spoil the ending, however, by assuring you that he came through OK and bobs there to this day.)
The Science Museum of Minnesota has a really remarkable exhibit of R.M.S Titanic artifacts currently on display. What brings this exhibit to the realm of amazing is the details. Each person who enters is given a "boarding pass" like the one seen here. This pass basically assigns you a persona for not only the journey across the Atlantic on the liner but a perspective on the exhibit as well.
There are several actors roaming the vast exhibit in character to interact with, which is a lot of fun.
The items in the exhibit are really amazing and quite varied. There are tiles, plumbing fixtures, currency, hull sections, the jacket of First Class Steward Athol Broome (who died in the sinking), a giant wrench from the boiler room, dishes, glassware, etc. There are also artifacts from The Carpathia, which is the ship that rescued the Titanic survivors.
For my journey, I was a young man (Johan Asplund) traveling 3rd class, as you can see. Now here is the really interesting part: At the end of the exhibit, there is a large board with all the names of the people aboard the Titanic and if they lived or died.
I won't reveal the fate of Johan.
If you get the chance, I would highly recommend seeing this exhibit.
Taken by Cory Funk.
Former Science Museum paleontologist and current Macalester College professor Dr. Kristi Curry Rogers has published news in Science today about her latest dinosaur discovery: a baby Rapetosaurus!
Curry Rogers made history in 2001 when she officially named Rapetosaurus, a long-necked titanosaur from Madagascar. More recently, she and her colleagues found beautifully-preserved specimens in a collection of what were previously thought to be crocodile bones at State University of New York at Stony Brook. Along with her colleagues, Kristi studied the bones and determined that they did indeed belong to Rapetosaurus, and that the animal was just a few weeks old, 35 centimeters tall, and weighed about 40 kilograms when it succumbed to drought in its Cretaceous ecosystem.
Long-necked sauropod dinosaurs were some of the biggest animals ever to walk on land, yet they hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball. With a dearth of fossils from the youngest sauropods, the earliest lives of these giants were a mystery.
“When we find sauropod bones, they are usually big,” said Curry Rogers. “Even juveniles can be bigger than cows. This is our first opportunity to explore the life of a sauropod just after hatching, at the earliest stage of life.”