DNA Analysis Reveals Troubling News About Shrunken Heads
In mid-19th century South America, a lucrative trade in shrunken human heads leads to a rash of fake heads being passed off as real. One museum sets about to find out if their own Shuar shrunken head is a fake.
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Science Bulletins: Congo Land Cover
Satellite data help scientists evaluate human impacts to ecosystems, especially in remote areas where field surveys are impractical. Researchers from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) are using satellite data spanning more than three decades to map vegetation and roads in and around protected areas in northern Congo, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic.
Science at Cal - Anand Varma - A Photographic Exploration of Patagonia's Wetlands and Volcanoes
Northern Patagonia has the strongest rainfall gradient in the world, transforming from rainforest to desert in less than 100 miles. In order to explore water's influence on the natural and human communities along this gradient, I traveled to Argentina in 2010 and photographed the wetlands of the region. I worked from the lush Valdivian rainforest in the west to the Patagonian desert of the east. Six months after I left, the Puyehue Volcano erupted and dumped ash across the same region. I returned in 2011 to show what this new element meant for the landscape and people of Patagonia. I will present my photographs, share the natural history stories behind them, and discuss what this eruption means for the future of Patagonia.
Anand Varma is a staff photographer at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley. He graduated with a B.A. in Integrative Biology in 2008 and has been working with researchers on campus and around the world to communicate science through photography. He began working as a photographic assistant for National Geographic Magazine as an undergraduate and has worked on 12 feature stories for the magazine. In 2010, he received a Young Explorer Grant from National Geographic to photograph the wetlands of Patagonia and has since become a freelance contributor to the magazine. His current projects include documenting the egg and nest collection on campus and photographing hummingbird courtship displays with Dr. Chris Clark at Yale University.
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ESPD50: Glenn Shepard - Substance, soul and sensation in Amazonian shamanism
Glenn H. Shepard Jr. is an ethnobotanist, medical anthropologist and filmmaker who has worked with diverse indigenous peoples of Latin America, especially in Amazonia. Research interests include ethnobiology, traditional medicine, community resource management and visual anthropology. He has contributed for over twenty years to public debates regarding the rights and territories of isolated indigenous peoples in the Amazon. Publications include research articles, commentary and reviews in Nature (1998, 1999, 2009), Science (2003), American Anthropologist (2004, 2012), Economic Botany (2008, 2011), Conservation Biology (2007), PLoS One (2015), Science Advances (2016) and the New York Review of Books (2014, 2015). His work in the Peruvian Amazon was featured in recent stories in National Geographic and The New Yorker. He has participated in the production of several films, including the Emmy-Award-winning documentary, Spirits of the Rainforest, and more recently, Zapatista Chronicle. He is currently a staff researcher in the Human Sciences Division at the Goeldi Museum in Belém, Brazil, where he curated the ethnographic collections from 2009-2013. He blogs at Notes from the Ethnoground.
Substance, soul and sensation in Amazonian shamanism.
Western scientists and entheogen enthusiasts have used terms such as “psychoactive,” “hallucinogenic,” “psychedelic,” or more recently “entheogenic,” to refer to shamanic plants and substances. Yet in all their permutations, such terms reinforce the foundational distinction Cartesian dichotomy between body and mind, substance and spirit, between the finite and the infinite. Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, by contrast, do not distinguish the mental or spiritual effects of shamanic plants and substances from their physiological or sensory properties. Among the Matsigenka people of Peru, for example, the term kepigari, which could be translated as “toxic,” or “intoxicating,” encompasses the physiological, sensory and cognitive dimensions of psychedelic experience under a single, unified concept. The Matsigenka and other Amazonian peoples make no distinction between a shamanic plant’s active pharmacological ingredients and what we might refer to as the anthropomorphized “soul” that animates and infuses it with agency. Indeed, for the Matsigenka and other Amazonian peoples, the body can sometimes be used as a synonym for what we would refer to as the soul, and vice versa. And yet just as ethnobotanists often overlook the philosophical ramifications of indigenous ways of knowing, anthropologists in Amazonia, increasingly concerned with ontological questions, often overlook the material and phenomenological basis of indigenous knowledge. An appreciation of indigenous concepts surrounding the sensory properties, body/mind manifestations and spiritual properties of shamanic plants transcends ethnobotany, while also grounding indigenous metaphysics in the material realm of botany, chemistry and substance.
Megatherium - Video Learning - WizScience.com
Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the late Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene. Its size was exceeded by only a few other land mammals, including mammoths and Paraceratherium.
The first fossil specimen of Megatherium was discovered in 1788 by Manuel Torres, on the bank of the Luján River in Argentina. The fossil was shipped to Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid the following year, where it remains. It was reassembled by museum employee Juan Bautista Bru, who also drew the skeleton and some individual bones. Based on Bru's illustrations, comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier determined the relationships and appearance of Megatherium. He published his first paper on the subject in 1796, a transcript of a previous lecture at the French Academy of Sciences. He published on the subject again in 1804; this paper was republished in his book Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes. In his 1796 paper, Cuvier assigned the fossil the scientific name Megatherium americanum.
Cuvier determined that Megatherium was a sloth, and at first believed that it used its large claws for climbing trees, like modern sloths, although he later changed his hypothesis to support a subterranean lifestyle, with the claws used to dig tunnels.
Fossils of Megatherium and other western megafauna proved popular with the Georgian era public until the discovery of the dinosaurs some decades later. Since the original discovery, numerous other fossil Megatherium skeletons have been discovered across South America, in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
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New Discoveries In The World Around Us
Dr Mark Harvey, Senior Curator, Terrestrial Zoology
We live in one of the last regions of the world where new animal species can be regularly found. Mark tells of the spiders, reptiles, frogs, scorpions, insects, and even ancient subterranean animals being described by WA Museum staff.
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Mylodon Cave attests to existence of pre-historic sloths in Chile
The Mylodon statue in front of the cave in Patagonia in southern Chile today keeps telling visitors the stories 2 million years ago, when the 10-feet-long sloth-alike creature made its living here on plants.
The Mylodon Cave became known to the world in 1895 when settlers came and found skin and tooth that attested to the 500-pound furry animal’s existence.
Numerous scientific expeditions ensued, while looters followed to dig in the cave for debris to be sold to collectors and museums mainly in Europe.
In 1968, this area was declared a historical site by the Ministry of Education of Chile. In 1993, it was named the Mylodon Cave Natural Monument and enlisted to the state's Protected Areas System.
For its archaeological value and the surrounding scenery, the cave has become a hot sight-seeing spot and even a must stop for tourists flocking to the Torres del Paine National Park just 60 kilometers away.
List of natural history museums | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:34 1 Africa
00:00:42 1.1 Algeria
00:00:56 1.2 Angola
00:01:12 1.3 Botswana
00:01:24 1.4 Canary Islands
00:01:44 1.5 Egypt
00:02:00 1.6 Ethiopia
00:02:14 1.7 Kenya
00:02:28 1.8 Mozambique
00:02:41 1.9 Namibia
00:02:56 1.10 South Africa
00:03:58 1.11 Sudan
00:04:10 1.12 Tanzania
00:04:24 1.13 Tunisia
00:04:36 1.14 Uganda
00:05:04 1.15 Zimbabwe
00:05:17 2 Asia
00:05:26 2.1 China
00:06:38 2.2 India
00:07:26 2.3 Indonesia
00:07:39 2.4 Iran
00:08:23 2.5 Iraq
00:08:35 2.6 Israel
00:09:03 2.7 Japan
00:11:35 2.8 Jordan
00:11:46 2.9 Kyrgyzstan
00:11:59 2.10 Malaysia
00:12:14 2.11 Mongolia
00:12:32 2.12 Oman
00:12:44 2.13 Pakistan
00:12:56 2.14 Philippines
00:13:16 2.15 Qatar
00:13:28 2.16 Singapore
00:13:42 2.17 South Korea
00:14:04 2.18 Taiwan
00:14:34 2.19 Thailand
00:17:35 2.20 United Arab Emirates
00:17:48 2.21 Uzbekistan
00:18:00 2.22 Vietnam
00:18:16 3 Central America
00:18:25 3.1 Belize
00:18:38 3.2 Costa Rica
00:19:16 3.3 Dominican Republic
00:19:37 3.4 Grenada
00:19:48 3.5 Guatemala
00:20:19 3.6 Honduras
00:20:31 3.7 Nicaragua
00:21:26 3.8 Panama
00:22:24 4 Europe
00:22:33 4.1 Albania
00:22:45 4.2 Armenia
00:23:00 4.3 Austria
00:24:49 4.4 Azerbaijan
00:25:12 4.5 Belarus
00:25:29 4.6 Belgium
00:25:46 4.7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:26:00 4.8 Bulgaria
00:26:50 4.9 Croatia
00:27:50 4.10 Czech Republic
00:28:09 4.11 Denmark
00:28:35 4.12 Estonia
00:28:52 4.13 Finland
00:29:23 4.14 France
00:31:21 4.15 Georgia
00:31:44 4.16 Germany
00:35:08 4.17 Greece
00:35:45 4.18 Greenland
00:35:57 4.19 Hungary
00:37:14 4.20 Iceland
00:37:27 4.21 Ireland
00:37:52 4.22 Italy
00:40:51 4.23 Latvia
00:41:03 4.24 Liechtenstein
00:41:15 4.25 Lithuania
00:41:32 4.26 Luxembourg
00:41:45 4.27 Macedonia
00:41:58 4.28 Malta
00:42:11 4.29 Moldova
00:42:24 4.30 Monaco
00:42:36 4.31 Montenegro
00:42:50 4.32 The Netherlands
00:43:58 4.33 Norway
00:44:27 4.34 Poland
00:45:00 4.35 Portugal
00:46:21 4.36 Romania
00:49:15 4.37 Russia
00:50:21 4.38 Serbia
00:50:43 4.39 Slovenia
00:50:58 4.40 Slovakia
00:51:14 4.41 Spain
00:52:53 4.42 Sweden
00:53:55 4.43 Switzerland
00:54:57 4.44 Turkey
00:55:17 4.45 Ukraine
00:56:09 4.46 United Kingdom
00:56:18 4.46.1 England
00:57:49 4.46.2 Scotland
00:58:23 4.46.3 Wales
00:58:37 4.46.4 Northern Ireland
00:58:48 5 North America
00:58:57 5.1 Bermuda
00:59:10 5.2 Canada
00:59:18 5.2.1 Alberta
00:59:41 5.2.2 British Columbia
01:00:11 5.2.3 Manitoba
01:00:51 5.2.4 New Brunswick
01:01:02 5.2.5 Newfoundland
01:01:17 5.2.6 Nova Scotia
01:01:34 5.2.7 Ontario
01:02:04 5.2.8 Quebec
01:02:43 5.2.9 Saskatchewan
01:03:13 5.2.10 Yukon
01:03:30 5.3 Mexico
01:04:34 5.4 United States
01:04:43 6 Oceania
01:04:52 6.1 Australia
01:07:01 6.2 Indonesia
01:08:29 6.3 New Zealand
01:09:02 7 South America
01:09:11 7.1 Argentina
01:13:12 7.2 Bolivia
01:13:41 7.3 Brazil
01:15:04 7.4 Chile
01:15:29 7.5 Colombia
01:16:06 7.6 Ecuador
01:16:20 7.7 Guyana
01:16:32 7.8 Paraguay
01:16:45 7.9 Peru
01:17:04 7.10 Trinidad and Tobago
01:17:21 7.11 Uruguay
01:17:40 7.12 Venezuela
01:18:49 8 See also
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This is a list of natural history museums, also known as museums of natural history, i.e. museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology.
Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science. In addition, nature centers often include natural-history exhibits.
Behold the Marble Caves of Patagonia
The marble caves along General Carrera Lake in Patagonia, Chile, are over 6,000 years old. The smooth intricate shapes inside of the caves are the result of lake currents that have carved through the rock over the millennia. Join us as we tour the incredible, natural beauty of this breathtaking part of southern Chile.
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Fossil hunters in Chile have unearthed the remains of a bizarre Jurassic dinosaur that combined a curious mixture of features from different prehistoric animals.
The evolutionary muddle of a beast grew to the size of a small horse and was the most abundant animal to be found 145 million years ago, in what is now the Aysén region of Patagonia.
The discovery ranks as one of the most remarkable dinosaur finds of the past 20 years, and promises to cause plenty of headaches for paleontologists hoping to place the animal in the dinosaur family tree.
I don’t know how the evolution of dinosaurs produced this kind of animal, what kind of ecological pressures must have been at work, said Fernando Novas at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires.
A reconstruction of the skeleton and external appearance of Chilesaurus. Paleontologists have labelled it a truly odd mix. Illustration: Gabriel Lío
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Mexico , officially the United Mexican States , is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost two million square kilometers , Mexico is the sixth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of over 120 million, Mexico is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world while being the second most populous country in Latin America. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and a special federal entity that is also its capital and most populous city. Other metropolises include Guadalajara, León, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, and Tijuana. Pre-Columbian Mexico was home to many advanced Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Olmec, To...
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Novo Dinossauro Encontrado !!! (Oceanotitan) - InGen News
Olá, Bem Vindos ao Canal, bem hoje falaremos a respeito do novo dinossauro catalogado o Oceanotitan dantase.
Oceanotitan é uma nova espécie de Dinossauro catalogada, que já havia sido encontrada bem antes mais, recentemente ele foi nomeado como Oceanotitan um grande saurópode do período Jurássico.
apesar de não ter muita informação sobre esté animal, ele pode ser bastante, estudado, e analisado pelos cientistas para em breve temos, um conhecimento mais aprofundado sobre, este novo saurópode.
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BEM VINDO AO JURASSIC CLIPS AQUI VOCÊ TERÁ ESTUDOS SOBRE OS DINOSSAUROS E QUAL-QUE OUTRO ANIMAL DA PRÉ-HISTÓRIA
SEM MAIS DELONGAS ASSISTA O VÍDEO E SE GOSTA SE INSCREVA-SE E DEIXE O LIKE OBRIGADO ;D
DISEÑO | Architecture
Live from El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio
Lively panel discussion on contemporary architecture. Leaders in the field, Diana Agrest of Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects, Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos and Mónica Ponce de León of MPdL Studio, discuss urban development, private and public space, and environmental considerations with architect and moderator Warren James.
DISEÑO is a partnership between Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and El Museo del Barrio. This program received federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
History of the Jews in Latin America and the Caribbean | Wikipedia audio article
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The history of the Jews in Latin America began with conversos who joined the Spanish and Portuguese expeditions to the continents. The Spanish permitted only Christians to take part in New World expeditions after its Crown expelled the Jews in 1492.
After the expulsion, many Sephardic Jews migrated to the Netherlands, France and eventually Italy, from where they joined other expeditions to the Americas. Others migrated to England or France and accompanied their colonists as traders and merchants. By the late 16th century, fully functioning Jewish communities were founded in the Portuguese colony of Brazil, the Dutch Suriname and Curaçao; Spanish Santo Domingo, and the English colonies of Jamaica and Barbados. In addition, there were unorganized communities of Jews in Spanish and Portuguese territories where the Inquisition was active, including Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Peru. Many in such communities were crypto-Jews, who had generally concealed their identity from the authorities.
By the mid-17th century, the largest Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere were located in Suriname and Brazil. Several Jewish communities in the Caribbean, Central and South America flourished, particularly in those areas under Dutch and English control, which were more tolerant. More immigrants went to this region as part of the massive emigration of Jews from eastern Europe in the late 19th century. During and after World War II, many Ashkenazi Jews emigrated to South America for refuge. In the 21st century, fewer than 300,000 Jews live in Latin America. They are concentrated in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, with the first considered the center of the Jewish population in Latin America.
2013 Calibre Prize: Because it's your country
Historian and award-winning writer Martin Thomas is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU). In this interview he talks to ANU history professor Tom Griffiths about the theft of human bones from Aboriginal sites in northern Australia and their repatriation from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC more than sixty years later.
The bones were taken in 1948 by Frank Setzler, Head Curator of Anthropology at the United States National Museum (now National Museum of Natural History) (NMNH), a division of the Smithsonian Institution. Setzler was one of a large party of scientists, anthropologists and photographers who comprised the American--Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, a large-scale research venture supported by the Smithsonian, the National Geographic Society and the Australian Government. ( The stolen bones became part of the large, trans-national collection of skeletal and other human body parts held by the National Museum of Natural History. While the NMNH has long been active in repatriating Native American human remains, there is little precedent for the return of bones to a community outside US borders. The release of the Arnhem Land bones in 2009-10 followed years of lobbying by the Australian government.
Martin Thomas has been working with members of the west Arnhem Land Aboriginal community of Gunbalanya (aka Oenpelli) in documenting how the Bininj (as these people are known) regard the theft, and how they used ceremony and ritual to receive back into their country the spirits of deceased people who were 'kidnapped' when the bones were taken from mortuary sites. Thomas is the author of ʻBecause itʼs your country: Bringing back the bones to west Arnhem Land', winner of the 2013 Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay, an annual award run by Australian Book Review. australianbookreview.com.au
Scavengers and Other Creatures - Anthropocene and the Unbuilt - Part 2
Lecture date: 2015-11-03
The third event in the series will discuss the future of the built environment in the relation to the term Anthropocene – a proposed age where human activity ‘impacts on Earth’s ecosystem’. Are binary notions of city/nature, urban/rural still relevant to think and act in the built environment at this age of planetary environmental crises or should they be surpassed by more innovative and instrumental practices? Taking the notion of Anthropocene as a provocative proposal, the event will bring together an interdisciplinary panel of architects, anthropologists, scientist and agent provocateurs. Individual presentations will be followed by a panel discussion.
Scavengers and Other Creatures is an on-going lecture series hosted by Intermediate 3, which explores the realm of fictional buildings, technological natures and cybernetics. An eponymous book of the unit’s student work, interviews and articles will be published in 2015.
Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos are principals of NaJa & deOstos. They are the authors of The Hanging Cemetery of Baghdad and Pamphlet Architecture 29: Ambiguous Spaces. They have been nominated for the 2012 Iakov Chernikhov prize for young architects around the world. Nannette has worked for Wilkinson Eyre and Zaha Hadid. Ricardo has worked for Peter Cook, Future Systems and Foster + Partners. He has taught at Lund University in Sweden and is currently an Associate Professor at École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. He was appointed curator of the Brazilian Pavilion for the London Festival of Architecture in 2008 and 2010.
Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at the Department of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University. She is also a 2010 Senior TED Fellow who is establishing an alternative approach to sustainability that couples with the computational properties of the natural world to develop a 21st century production platform for the built environment, which she calls 'living' architecture. Rachel has been frequently recognized as being a pioneer. She has recently been featured in interview for PORTER magazine, added to the 2014 Citizens of the Next Century List, by Future-ish, listed on the Wired 2014 Smart List.
Mark Jarzombek, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT, has published books and articles on a wide range of historical topics from the 12th century to the modern era with a particular focus on nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy and architecture. He is a leading advocate for global history and has published several books and articles on that topic, including the ground-breaking textbook entitled A Global History of Architecture with co-author Vikram Prakash and with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching. His current book project is entitled Thinking About Architecture.
Marco Poletto is an architect, author and educator. He is co-founder and director of ecoLogicStudio in London and now holds an Adapt-r research fellowship in bio-digital design at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark and is Distinguished Visiting Critic at Carnegie Mellon University. Marco has lectured and taught internationally and has been Unit Master at the AA in London, at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture and Visiting Faculty at the IAAC, Barcelona, and Cornell University, Ithaca. He is co-author of “Systemic Architecture: operating manual for the self-organising city” by Routledge. His experimental work and completed projects have been published and exhibited throughout the world.
Michael Weinstock is the founder and Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design programme in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association. Over the last decade his published work has arisen from research into the dynamics, forms and energy transactions of natural systems, and the application of the mathematics and processes of emergence to cities, to groups of buildings within cities and to individual buildings. Whilst his principal research and teaching has been conducted at the Architectural Association, he has published and lectured widely, and taught seminar courses, studios and workshops on these topics at many other schools of Architecture in the UK and Europe, United States and Japan.
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Curator Talk: Pablo León de la Barra, Sara Raza, and June Yap
In this session of a symposium, titled (De)Coupling as Discourse on the Global South, Joan Young, the museum’s Director of Curatorial Affairs, introduces a Keynote Conversation between the project’s three curators, Pablo León de la Barra, Sara Raza, and June Yap. Moderated by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Brooklyn Museum, the discussion addresses such ideas as transnationality and geopolitics in the context of exhibition making and collection building.
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