{"id":198,"date":"2010-02-07T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T17:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2010\/02\/07\/dead-animals-as-far-as-the-eye-can-see\/"},"modified":"2010-02-07T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T17:11:48","slug":"dead-animals-as-far-as-the-eye-can-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2010\/02\/07\/dead-animals-as-far-as-the-eye-can-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead animals as far as the eye can see"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got back from a workshop<\/a> at Case Western Reserve University on various large-angular-scale puzzles in observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation.\u00a0 I wrote a bit<\/a> about one aspect of this topic a while ago.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll write some more about the science soon.\u00a0 For now, though, here are some pictures from a behind-the-scenes tour of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History arranged for us by the workshop organizers.<\/p>\n

Once the tour guides found out we were astrophysicists, they kept trying to tell us we should see the museum’s telescope and planetarium.\u00a0 But we’ve all seen a telescope or two in our day.\u00a0 I’d much rather see dinosaur bones.<\/p>\n

The tour lived up to its billing as “behind the scenes”: we didn’t actually look at any of the exhibits on display to the public.\u00a0 We started in a huge<\/em> refrigerated room housing all of the mounted animals that they don’t have room to display.\u00a0 These pictures don’t give a good sense of the scale of the place, unfortunately:<\/p>\n

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(Click on an image to enlarge.)<\/p>\n

Off in a corner somewhere in this room is, for some reason, a boar shot by Nikita Khrushchev:<\/p>\n

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In addition to the storage area, we went to the area where the curatorial staff works on preserving and studying the animals.\u00a0 There’s a huge human bone collection (which I don’t have pictures of).\u00a0 In the zoological specimen area, we walked past this turtle, which I think gives a little hint of the difficulties that this work must involve:<\/p>\n

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Some parts of the work I do are difficult, but I never have to deal with moth-infested turtles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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