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...think of antiquities as national property, essential to the construction of the modern nations' identity. Which in part they are. The problem is whether that idea can accommodate the no less plausible notion that the products of ancient civilizations are also the heritage of all humanity. Our encounter with Shang-dynasty bronzes, Central African carvings and Aztec-calendar stones is part of how we construct for ourselves a human identity that transcends mere nationality. To put it mildly, in a time of rising nationalism, that's an urgent project. Why shouldn't things produced by all civilizations be widely available...
JESSICA K. SHANG '08: Tiny Flying 'Bots...
...Shang said she is excited about the implications of insect microrobotics both for the engineering field and the study of insect flight mechanics...
Though this subject has been studied extensively, Shang said, in the past researchers either had to catch an insect and videotape it or simulate insects’ wing movements using a computer...
Microrobotics “bridges computational and experimental work on insect flight,” Shang said...