Monthly Archives: July 2013

Gizmodo piece on Capturing Dinosaurs

Capturing Dinosaurs concluded last Friday with an amazing presentation by the youth. It was all youth led, full of science, 3D fabricated fossils and bad, very bad, dinosaur jokes (Why did the dinosaur cross the street? Because the chicken hadn’t … Continue reading

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Vine’s from Week One of Capturing Dinosaurs

Vine, the 6-second looping video app from Twitter, even strikes me as silly sometimes. But that doesn’t stop me from using it all the time. Below are some Vine’s from this week’s Capturing Dinosaurs program. I like them as a … Continue reading

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Both Sides of the Screen: Museums Seeking Balance in a Digital Age

Below is a reblog of my recent column on DMLcentral: There’s a New Yorker cartoon, published this past March, that shows a mother and child in a museum, the child pointing a device towards a painting. “It’s an audio guide, … Continue reading

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Capturing Dinosaurs – The Beginning

Yesterday we launched a ten day summer program for high school youth using the Museum’s dinosaur collections and the tools of digital fabrication to teach comparative fossil anatomy. The program, Capturing Dinosaurs, is a remarkable collaboration amongst our education department, … Continue reading

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Digital Playground: Bone Wars – a Paleo Card Game

As part of our recent Digital Playground series on science card games, Nathan, Ariam and I followed-up Parasites Unleashed with the rollicking Bone Wars: The Game of Ruthless Paleontology. Published by the same company, Zygote, this game was a winner. … Continue reading

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