Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Friday, July 31st, 2009 The Art of the Natural History Museum

Friday, July 31st, 2009

The Art of the Natural History Museum

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200907315

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Resources

RESOURCES – MATERIALS – TOOLS: Suggested

GOOD OLD FASHIONED BOOKS

About Art and Science:

• Art on the Edge and Over; Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society (1970’s – 1990’s). by Linda Weintraub.

• The Molecular Gaze; Art in the Genetic Age. By Susan Anker and Dorothy Nelkin.

About SCIENCE:

• THE CANON; A whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. Natalie Angier

About Biology:

• Ever Since Darwin; Reflections in Natural History Punctuated Equilibrium, he actually has TONS of books and articles out there. By Stephen Jay Gould.

• Rosalind Franklin; The Dark Lady of DNA. By Brenda Maddox

• Charles Darwin The Origin of Species. published 1859 . Most famous text about Evolution.

• Carroll, Sean B. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: the New Science of Evo Devo. Comparative Embryological Development and new Evolutionary Theory. Copyright 2005 Sean B. Carroll, published by. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.

• Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”. The science of ecology and the dangers of DDT – but written for the pubic.

• The Web of Life. By Fritjof Capra. The Interconnectedness of our environment and world, a little bit of theory, and a whole lot of awesome. Also wrote the book The Tao of Physic

• Our Stolen Future. By Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and Jon Peterson Myers.

About Astronomy and Physics

• The Horse and the Iron Ball. By Jerry and Georgiana Allan.

• A Brief History of Time & Universe in a Nutshell Stephen Hawkings.

ON LINE RESOURCES

• Science Museum of Minnesota

http://www.smm.org/

• Listen to Science Friday’s interview about exhibit designers, watch videos and read!

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200907315

• Science News

http://www.sciencenews.org/

• The Scientist

http://www.the-scientist.com/

• New York Academy of Sciences

http://www.nyas.org/WhatWeDo/SciencetheCity.aspx

• Science without Borders

http://www.scientistswithoutborders.org/default.aspx

• Science Friday

http://www.sciencefriday.com/feeds/radio

Art and Science

• Masaryk University Mendel museum in Bro, Czech Republic – Gallery of Contemporary art

http://mendel-museum.com/eng/1online/gallery.htm

• The Sciences – a now defunct art & science magazine that was just incredible!

http://www.nyas.org/publications/sciences.asp

• The new site related to this – they have a whole section dedicated to art and science

http://www.nyas.org/Topic.aspx?tid=2c70b42a-417e-4536-8946-92d4dd4ddda2

• The Green Museum

www.greenmuseum.org/c/ecovention/sect1.html

• Science News

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/44922/title/Iron-ic_twist_deepens_cosmic_ray_puzzle

• Listen to Science Friday’s interview about exhibit designers, watch videos and read!

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200907315

VIDEO SEGMENTS

Biology

• ‘The Shape of Life” – PBS) -- home web site on: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/index.html

• DNA: Secret of Photo 51 – the Nova special about Rosalind Franklin – the true discoverer of the shape of DNA

Physics / Astronomy

• The Elegant Universe. (Nova on String Theory)

• Origins: 14 Billion years of Cosmic Evolution; hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

• Carl Sagan’s art filled segment from his book “the Pale Blue Dot”, the Video series “the Cosmos” etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAteAz3WQ0

Other Museums in the Twin Cities

Other museums and places to go:

• Free Museum Adventure Passes through the Minneapolis Public Library http://www.hclib.org/pub/info/MuseumAdventurePassFAQ.cfm

Locations that will donate two free admissions per pass

American Swedish Institute

The Bakken Museum

Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary

Fire trucks, Railroads and Streetcars:

Firefighters Hall & Museum

Minnesota Streetcar Museum

Minnesota Transportation Museum

Hennepin History Museum

Historic Fort Snelling

Minnesota History Center

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Minnesota Zoo

The Landing - Minnesota River Heritage Park

The Museum of Russian Art

The Raptor Center (University of Minnesota)

Twin City Model Railroad Museum

Walker Art Center

The Works: A Technology Discovery Center

Bell Museum of Natural History

Como Park Zoo and Conservatory

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Weisman Art Museum

Tuesday, January 11, 2011