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Test your Carolina knowledge with today's trivia! 🐏 Fill in the Blank: Inspired by a Harvard professor's suggestion, John Motley Morehead III decided to build a planetarium at #UNC. In ____, the Morehead Planetarium opened as the first in the South and one of only six in the entire United States. Let us know down below  ⬇ Option 1 - 1969 Option 2 - 1957 Option 3 - 1949 Option 4 - 1901

Interior of Hemisferic planetarium, City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain

Check out this post about Robeson Planetarium and Science Center Director Ken Brandt's experience as he lectures in Italy! Mr. Brandt will be updating us regularly in the blog link below about his experience! The post also includes a few photos he snapped during his journey! https://lnkd.in/eBxHaSc4

While visitors to the Western Australian Museum's seven museums will be familiar with its scientific collections – from massive meteorites to beguiling burrowing bees – they may be less aware of the cutting-edge research happening behind the scenes, based on a state collection of over eight million items. As National Science Week begins, Australia looks to the theme 'Species Survival – More Than Just Sustainability.' In turn, it is a timely reminder of the critical role public museums play in addressing one of the greatest existential threats to our planet – species loss. By studying our collections, and by surveying literally thousands of square kilometres of land and sea, our curators, associates and volunteers are charting the distribution of threatened species, whilst discovering animals that have never been recognised or described. These dedicated scientists are carrying out vital work which help us understand and ultimately conserve our environment. As I say with only a hint of hyperbole: “They are saving the world.” Read more about the Museum's latest research and discoveries: https://lnkd.in/g9GqFYPg

The latest blog is up and it's timely. I'm on a train on the way to West Palm today to present the results of several months of work for the Cox Science Center and Aquarium and it reminds me of my lifelong fascination with all things science-especially space! I hope you'll take a look and leave me some comments on the blog. https://lnkd.in/eihRsHj5

As part of our 20th year as Electric Square, we are looking back with gratitude at the many collaborations we’ve been lucky enough to experience. It’s important to remember where you came from, so over the next 15 days we are posting mini-reels showing off the work from some of our favourite projects from our two decades in the industry. Can’t wait to see what the next 20 years has in store! * DAY 10! The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World (2018) * The amazing story of nature's great survivor: fungi. Not plant, not animal, but a distinct biological realm, fungi have been essential to the evolution of all life on land. And they may hold the key to mankind's future. (https://lnkd.in/e3Js6vQw) * For this episode of CBC's Nature of Things, we got to travel back in time to the Devonian era to imagine the early cooling landscape of earth would have looked like, dominated by towering “Godizlla Fungi” called Prototaxites. These bad boys stood up to 8 metres in height, and ruled before trees until they were brought down by evolving insects. In addition to these fully CG sequences, we also went microscopic to depict the action of mycelium dissolving and drilling through rock, in order to establish the amazing subterranean fungal networks that knit together whole ecosystems. Any time we get involved in projects that explore the natural world and scientific phenomena we feel like the proverbial mushroom at a party.

As part of our 20th year as Electric Square, we are looking back with gratitude at the many collaborations we’ve been lucky enough to experience. It’s important to remember where you came from, so over the next 15 days we are posting mini-reels showing off the work from some of our favourite projects from our two decades in the industry. Can’t wait to see what the next 20 years has in store! * DAY 10! The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World (2018) * The amazing story of nature's great survivor: fungi. Not plant, not animal, but a distinct biological realm, fungi have been essential to the evolution of all life on land. And they may hold the key to mankind's future. (https://lnkd.in/e3Js6vQw) * For this episode of CBC Nature of Things, we got to travel back in time to the Devonian era to imagine the early cooling landscape of earth would have looked like, dominated by towering “Godizlla Fungi” called Prototaxites. These bad boys stood up to 8 metres in height, and ruled before trees until they were brought down by evolving insects. In addition to these fully CG sequences, we also went microscopic to depict the action of mycelium dissolving and drilling through rock, in order to establish the amazing subterranean fungal networks that knit together whole ecosystems. Any time we get involved in projects that explore the natural world and scientific phenomena we feel like the proverbial mushroom at a party.

The opportunities. The research. The breakthroughs. It’s all out of love for our state. See all the things we do for love at: https://bit.ly/4ftWvfE #DearColorado

🐝 The final paper of my PhD is out! 🐝 It may have been already - or just only - two years from my #PhDone, but finally it's all out there. I'm incredibly grateful for all my collaborators, supervisors and the support I've had along the way. Plan Bee didn't always work out, but I could always lean on the hive. 📝1️⃣ ArcHives—combined palynological, genomic and lipid analysis of medieval wax seals 👉 Medieval seals form large collections which, along with the historical information in the documents that the seals are attached to, is a potential biomolecular treasure. For example, pollen from the seals tell us about honeybee foraging as a provenancing fingerprint, including information about the storage conditions of the artefacts. https://lnkd.in/djVrrbAb 📝2️⃣ Beescapes – extracting pollen from historical Danish beeswax to explore honeybee foraging 👉 We found that information gained from palynological analysis of museum samples may be useful in illuminating details of historical apiology. We present our study in light of the importance of environmental biodiversity in Denmark and its vitality for bees as key pollinators in our ecosystem. https://lnkd.in/dpZ5haYr 📝3️⃣ A queen’s tale: Assessing the hidden potential of beeswax specimens in Natural History Museum collections 👉 We examine an intact and closed honeybee queen cell specimen from the 19th century. With the help of X-ray CT, a queen bee and residues of its developmental environment, such as MRJP’s, were identified. https://lnkd.in/dDSZGx7u Huge thanks to also #HorizonEU #MSCA, Carlsberg Foundation and Danmarks Grundforskningsfond / The Danish National Research Foundation for funding my PhD and the ArcHives research. 🐝 🇪🇺🇩🇰

Today, we remember the genius of #CarlSagan on his birthday. 🎂 Can you name the bestselling book in question? Answer below! 📖 #Science #ScienceTrivia #Astronomy #Astronomer #Astronomers #BookLover #FunFacts #Trivia #TriviaGame #PubTrivia