Bean Life Science Museum: A Visitor's Guide
Now Open! The free-admission Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, re-opened June 7, 2014, after a two-year renovation project. The museum features a 32,400 square foot expansion and new exhibits. Admission to the museum is free. See mlbean.byu.edu for hours and schedules for live animal shows and other events.
We are so excited to introduce the public to the new Bean Museum, said Museum Director Larry St. Clair. It is a beautiful facility and a great place to explore and learn more about the wonderful creatures of our world.
Visitors to the museum's 32,400 square foot expansion and renovated facility will be able to explore even more of the earth's ecosystems and biodiversity through new exhibits, including:
Our Living Planet -- the unique, life-sustaining characteristics of planet Earth, featuring an eight-foot-in-diameter fiberglass globe, mapped with the most current NASA satellite images.
Life on Top: Apex Predators -- see what it's like to live at the top of the food chain with this display of animals as they might be found in the wild.
Whooo Lives Here? -- play area designed just for toddlers that teaches young children about animal homes with a talking owl, a bear cave and a tree nest with slide.
Fred and Sue Morris Bird Gallery -- a collection of more than 100 species of birds donated by Fred and Sue Morris.
Boyd K. Packer Gallery -- this exhibit features the wildlife art of President Boyd K. Packer, the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including animal carvings and paintings.
The expanded facility also has a new orientation room and two new classrooms that will be used for outreach programs for local schools. The research and collections facility has been expanded and secured. There is a new wet collections facility for ethanol-preserved collections including fish, crustaceans, aquatic insects and mammals. In all, there are 2.8 million specimens housed in the museum. The new addition was paid for by donor contributions.
About the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Located on the campus of Brigham Young University at 645 East 1430 North in Provo, UT, the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum has a collection of 2.8 million specimens, the oldest dating back to 1900, carefully maintained and made available to research scientists and educators, with exhibits and educational programs for the public. The museum is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thanks to an endowment started by a generous donation by Monte L. and Birdie Bean, the museum originally opened in March 1978, and admission is always free. See mlbean.byu.edu
Matt Meese at the Bean Museum
Studio C's Matt Meese visits the newly renovated Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, where he worked when he was a BYU student. The museum reopened June 7, 2014, after a two year remodel. See mlbean.byu.edu for information about hours and schedules for live animal shows and other events.
The new Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University features a 32,400 square foot expansion and new exhibits.
We are so excited to introduce the public to the new Bean Museum, said Museum Director Larry St. Clair. It is a beautiful facility and a great place to explore and learn more about the wonderful creatures of our world.
Visitors to the museum's 32,400 square foot expansion and renovated facility will be able to explore even more of the earth's ecosystems and biodiversity through new exhibits, including:
Our Living Planet -- the unique, life-sustaining characteristics of planet Earth, featuring an eight-foot-in-diameter fiberglass globe, mapped with the most current NASA satellite images.
Life on Top: Apex Predators -- see what it's like to live at the top of the food chain with this display of animals as they might be found in the wild.
Whooo Lives Here? -- play area designed just for toddlers that teaches young children about animal homes with a talking owl, a bear cave and a tree nest with slide.
Fred and Sue Morris Bird Gallery -- a collection of more than 100 species of birds donated by Fred and Sue Morris.
Boyd K. Packer Gallery -- this exhibit features the wildlife art of President Boyd K. Packer, the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including animal carvings and paintings.
See more about the museum at: mlbean.byu.edu or
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Special thanks to Matt Meese and the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum administration
Producer: Julie Walker
Photography: Brian Wilcox, Paul Taylor
Editor: Samuel Reimer
Additional production support provided by Katy Knight, Daniel Kellis, Michael Gordon and Karen Knorr.
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Hope As an Anchor of Our Souls | Alan R. Harker
Alan R. Harker speaks about the power of hope as an anchor for our souls, especially in the times of our greatest suffering.
Alan R. Harker was associate academic vice president for Research and Graduate Studies at Brigham Young University when he gave this devotional on 7 June 2016.
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I would like to share one personal observation: I have been associated with seven different universities over the course of my career. In my experience, there is nothing even remotely similar at any of those other institutions to what we are doing here today. It is remarkable what we do here each Tuesday morning. We share our testimonies and we share our experiences, and I am grateful for what I have learned from all of you as I have attended devotionals over the last twenty-two years.
What I add today to that library of devotional wisdom is not new. I am acutely aware that I am merely revisiting truths that have been taught by many others with different words, by different means, and through different personal experiences.
The seed for my thoughts today was planted more than a year ago as a successful family reunion came to an end. Even though our children are all grown, as their parents we feel some misplaced obligation to be on the last flight out and to see them all off safely. This usually gives my wife and me some extra time to visit more adult attractions while waiting for a later flight. Our preference seems to be for art museums.
On this occasion we chose a museum not too far from the airport, in which one of the traveling exhibits happened to be of sixteenth-century engravings. My general lack of enthusiasm or appreciation, probably brought on by equal measures of ignorance and fatigue, was tempered by the observation of a theme throughout many of the engravings. Series after series of engravings depicted the seven virtues and the seven deadly sins. Almost all contained precisely the same compositional elements derived from scripture.
And here is the seed that was planted: a representation of hope in many of the engravings. There were commonalities in all of these portrayals of hope: There was always a young woman looking longingly toward heaven, perhaps envisioning a brighter future in this life or in the next. There was always the symbolism of the anchor, which is referred to in scripture in numerous places, but none so directly as in Hebrews 6:19: “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast.”
I have always been curious about hope and how we obtain it. It is something we all desire. In scripture it is always sandwiched between faith and charity. What is this hope, how does it act as an anchor of our souls, and how do we obtain this hope that we all seem to so desire? I will endeavor to address, if not answer, some of those questions today.
I wish to dismiss rather quickly two worldly notions regarding both hope and anchors. Hope in the scriptural sense is not wishing. We use the word hope far too often in that shallow context and thereby confuse ourselves into believing that hope is a transitory state that can be achieved in times of duress through mere desire or anxious longing. This is not the hope that is “both sure and stedfast.”
Just as hope is not the same as wishing, neither are anchors dead weight meant to slow us down or impede our progress. The proper use of an anchor is paramount to safety on the water. Having hoisted a few anchors myself, I can fully appreciate that one of the young ladies in an engraving depicting hope, although still gazing into heaven—perhaps waiting for that elusive answer to that last final exam question—had chosen to use the anchor for support rather than to hold it forever.
In October 2000 my wife and I and two of our three children were living in Christchurch, New Zealand. BYU had provided us with a generous development leave, and we had made our home in a quaint bungalow—quaint meaning old, cold, drafty, and damp—adjacent to the University of Canterbury, where I was working with a colleague who was to become a good friend.
–Alan R. Harker
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6 Strangest Unsolved Mysteries From Utah US
6 Strangest Unsolved Mysteries From Utah US.
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Paleontologists identified the skeleton of an ice age horse discovered in a Utah backyard.
Paleontologists identified the skeleton of an ice age horse discovered in a Utah backyard.
Paleontologists last week identified the skeleton of an ice age horse in Lehi, Utah, a particularly unusual finding given that much of the western part of the state was underwater until about 14,000 years ago. Buried for thousands of years under seven feet of sandy clay, the remains were discovered only when the Hill family began moving earth around their backyard to build a retaining wall and plant some grass.
Laura Hill said she and her husband, Bridger, discovered the skeleton last September, but did not think about it at first. They wondered if it was a cow; Lehi is about 15 miles from Provo and was once mostly farmland that extended to the edges of nearby Utah Lake. She consulted a neighbor, a professor of geology at Brigham Young University, who examined the bones and assumed they came from a Pleistocene-era horse. I was surprised, said Hill. This is something we did not expect. Utah is home to several fossil sites where dinosaurs and other ice-age animals have been discovered, including mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers.
Utah | Wikipedia audio article
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Utah
00:01:58 1 Etymology
00:02:54 2 History
00:03:03 2.1 Pre-Columbian
00:03:53 2.2 Spanish exploration (1540)
00:05:40 2.3 Latter Day Saint settlement (1847)
00:09:06 2.4 Utah Territory (1850–1896)
00:15:33 2.5 20th century
00:18:18 3 Geography
00:24:10 3.1 Climate
00:30:28 3.2 Wildlife
00:30:44 3.2.1 Mammals
00:31:22 3.2.2 Birds
00:31:30 3.2.3 Insects
00:32:16 3.3 Vegetation
00:32:28 4 Demographics
00:33:38 4.1 Health and fertility
00:34:41 4.2 Ancestry and race
00:36:38 4.3 Religion
00:39:37 4.4 Languages
00:40:26 4.5 Age and gender
00:40:49 5 Economy
00:43:14 5.1 Taxation
00:43:49 5.2 Tourism
00:46:31 5.2.1 Branding
00:47:27 5.3 Mining
00:48:53 5.3.1 Incidents
00:49:22 5.4 Energy
00:49:32 5.4.1 Potential to use renewable energy sources
00:50:07 6 Transportation
00:53:30 7 Law and government
00:54:34 7.1 Counties
00:55:18 7.2 Women's rights
00:56:02 7.3 Free-range parenting
00:56:28 7.4 Constitution
00:56:55 7.5 Alcohol, tobacco and gambling laws
00:58:06 7.6 Same-sex marriage
00:59:06 7.7 Politics
01:05:32 8 Major cities and towns
01:07:40 9 Colleges and universities
01:07:50 10 Culture
01:07:59 10.1 Sports
01:12:10 10.2 Entertainment
01:12:30 10.2.1 Books
01:14:43 10.2.2 Film
01:15:20 10.2.3 Video Games
01:15:54 11 See also
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Utah ( YOO-taw, -tah listen) is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U.S. on January 4, 1896. Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of more than 3 million according to the Census estimate for July 1, 2016. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which contains approximately 2.5 million people; and Washington County in Southern Utah, with over 160,000 residents. Utah is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast.
Approximately 62% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), making Utah the only state with a majority population belonging to a single church. This greatly influences Utahn culture and daily life. The LDS Church's world headquarters is located in Salt Lake City.The state is a center of transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, mining, and a major tourist destination for outdoor recreation. In 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Utah had the second fastest-growing population of any state. St. George was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States from 2000 to 2005. Utah also has the 14th highest median average income and the least income inequality of any U.S. state. A 2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the best state to live in based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, and health-related outlook metrics.
List of planetariums | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:13 1 Permanent planetariums
00:00:37 1.1 Africa
00:01:21 1.2 Asia
00:06:51 1.3 Europe
00:21:00 1.4 North America
00:21:09 1.4.1 Canada
00:22:56 1.4.2 Costa Rica
00:23:08 1.4.3 Mexico
00:25:50 1.4.4 United States
00:40:49 1.5 Oceania
00:41:41 1.6 South America
00:44:17 2 Planetarium computer software
00:45:02 3 Planetarium manufacturers
00:50:40 4 See also
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This entry is a list of permanent planetariums, including software and manufacturers. In addition, many mobile planetariums exist, touring venues such as schools.
Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television. He is perhaps best known for inventing the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system. He was also the first person to demonstrate such a system to the public. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera, which he produced commercially in the firm of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation, from 1938 to 1951.
In later life, Farnsworth invented a small nuclear fusion device, the Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor, or simply fusor, employing inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC). Although not a practical device for generating nuclear energy, the fusor serves as a viable source of neutrons. The design of this device has been the acknowledged inspiration for other fusion approaches including the Polywell reactor concept in terms of a general approach to fusion design. Farnsworth held 165 patents, mostly in radio and television.
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Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city is the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,153,340 (2014 estimate). Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo Combined Statistical Area. This region is a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along an approximately 120-mile (190 km) segment of the Wasatch Front, comprising a population of 2,423,912 as of 2014. It is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin (the other is Reno, Nevada).
The world headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is located in Salt Lake City. The city was originally founded in 1847 by Brigham Young, and other followers of the church, who were seeking to escape religious persecution in the mid-western United States. The Pioneers, as they would come to be known, at first encountered an arid, inhospitable valley that they then extensively irrigated and cultivated, thereby establishing the foundation to sustain the area's large population of today. Salt Lake City's street grid system is based on the north-south east-west grid plan developed by early church leaders, with the Salt Lake Temple constructed at the city's center.
Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named Great Salt Lake City; however, the word great was dropped from the official name in 1868 by the 17th Utah Territorial Legislature.Immigration of international members of the church, mining booms, and the construction of the first transcontinental railroad initially brought economic growth, and the city was nicknamed the Crossroads of the West. It was traversed by the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, in 1913. Two major cross-country freeways, I-15 and I-80, now intersect in the city. Salt Lake City has developed a strong outdoor recreation tourist industry based primarily on skiing, and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. It is the industrial banking center of the United States.
Utah | Wikipedia audio article
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Utah
00:01:59 1 Etymology
00:02:55 2 History
00:03:04 2.1 Pre-Columbian
00:03:54 2.2 Spanish exploration (1540)
00:05:41 2.3 Latter Day Saint settlement (1847)
00:09:07 2.4 Utah Territory (1850–1896)
00:15:35 2.5 20th century
00:18:21 3 Geography
00:24:14 3.1 Climate
00:30:33 3.2 Wildlife
00:30:49 3.2.1 Mammals
00:31:27 3.2.2 Birds
00:31:35 3.2.3 Insects
00:32:21 3.3 Vegetation
00:32:33 4 Demographics
00:33:43 4.1 Health and fertility
00:34:46 4.2 Ancestry and race
00:36:44 4.3 Religion
00:39:44 4.4 Languages
00:40:33 4.5 Age and gender
00:40:56 5 Economy
00:43:22 5.1 Taxation
00:43:57 5.2 Tourism
00:46:39 5.2.1 Branding
00:47:35 5.3 Mining
00:49:02 5.3.1 Incidents
00:49:31 5.4 Energy
00:49:41 5.4.1 Potential to use renewable energy sources
00:50:15 6 Transportation
00:53:39 7 Law and government
00:54:43 7.1 Counties
00:55:27 7.2 Women's rights
00:56:11 7.3 Free-range parenting
00:56:38 7.4 Constitution
00:57:05 7.5 Alcohol, tobacco and gambling laws
00:58:16 7.6 Same-sex marriage
00:59:16 7.7 Politics
01:05:43 8 Major cities and towns
01:07:52 9 Colleges and universities
01:08:02 10 Culture
01:08:11 10.1 Sports
01:12:23 10.2 Entertainment
01:12:43 10.2.1 Books
01:14:56 10.2.2 Film
01:15:33 10.2.3 Video Games
01:16:07 11 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Utah ( YOO-taw, -tah listen) is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U.S. on January 4, 1896. Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of more than 3 million according to the Census estimate for July 1, 2016. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which contains approximately 2.5 million people; and Washington County in Southern Utah, with over 160,000 residents. Utah is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast.
Approximately 62% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), making Utah the only state with a majority population belonging to a single church. This greatly influences Utahn culture and daily life. The LDS Church's world headquarters is located in Salt Lake City.The state is a center of transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, mining, and a major tourist destination for outdoor recreation. In 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Utah had the second fastest-growing population of any state. St. George was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States from 2000 to 2005. Utah also has the 14th highest median average income and the least income inequality of any U.S. state. A 2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the best state to live in based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, and health-related outlook metrics.
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Utah ( YOO-taw, -tah listen) is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U.S. on January 4, 1896. Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of more than 3 million according to the Census estimate for July 1, 2016. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which contains approximately 2.5 million people; and Washington County in Southern Utah, with over 160,000 residents. Utah is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast.
Approximately 62% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), making Utah the only state with a majority population belonging to a single church. This greatly influences Utahn culture and daily life. The LDS Church's world headquarters is located in Salt Lake City.The state is a center of transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, mining, and a major tourist destination for outdoor recreation. In 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Utah had the second fastest-growing population of any state. St. George was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States from 2000 to 2005. Utah also has the 14th highest median average income and the least income inequality of any U.S. state. A 2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the best state to live in based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, and health-related outlook metrics.
Philo Farnsworth | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:15 1 Early life
00:05:46 2 Career
00:18:52 3 Inventions
00:19:01 3.1 Electronic television
00:20:46 3.2 Fusor
00:21:46 3.3 Other inventions
00:22:12 4 TV appearance
00:24:46 5 Legacy
00:25:24 5.1 Honors
00:26:13 5.2 Memorials
00:28:33 5.3 Things named after Farnsworth
00:29:48 5.4 In popular culture
00:31:51 6 Fort Wayne factory razing, residence history
00:33:10 7 Marion, Indiana factory
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television. He is best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera which he produced commercially in the form of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.In later life, Farnsworth invented a small nuclear fusion device, the Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor, employing inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC). It was not a practical device for generating nuclear power, although it serves as a viable source of neutrons. The design of this device has been the inspiration for other fusion approaches, including the Polywell reactor concept. Farnsworth held 300 patents, mostly in radio and television.