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...lyrical pieces, which he made with house paint and hung in his front yard using dental floss, first drew curious buyers, then eager galleries. The paintings--of bold, bright, sometimes grotesque women, birds, flowers, snakes and trees--are now in the permanent collections of major institutions, including the Smithsonian and New York City's American Folk Art Museum...
Both M.I.T. and the Smithsonian expressed interest in the Polaroid collection, says Brad Kullberg, vice president of corporate development at Polaroid, but Harvard snagged the prize...
...Excellent Mother Just Sent Me Nine Pickles,” as the old mnemonic device goes. But even though Pluto has been officially demoted, the skies have just revealed two new planets to Harvard astronomers. The widely-publicized HAT-P-1, identified last week by scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), is the largest planet ever detected. But researchers at the same center have also found another so-called “hot Jupiter”—a significant discovery in its own right. Both breakthroughs came with the aid of small amateur telescopes...
...moon might be made of cheese, but Harvard astronomers have found a planet with the density of a marshmallow. A team from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirmed last week the existence of the largest planet detected and the lightest in weight for a planet of its size. Using Hungarian-designed amateur telescopes, Harvard astronomer Gaspar Bakos led his group in the discovery of HAT-P-1, which stands for “the first planet detected by a Hungarian Automated Telescope.” With four-inch apertures, these miniature telescopes, some of the smallest in the world...
Historical-museum curators can be a contentious bunch--get between two of them debating whether the Smithsonian exhibit of First Ladies' ball gowns is real history, and you may want to John Wilkes Booth one or both of them. But nearly all curators will agree that they are battling a common enemy: public indifference. If you're in the history business, you're competing for shrinking wallets and tighter leisure time. Schools teach less history, so kids have less of an idea about what happened at your venue or why it matters. And those same kids have perhaps more veto...