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Asimov Live Stream: Mark Your Calendar for 3/19 at 7:30 EDT
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Mark your calendars for this Wednesday evening, March 19, at 7:30 pm EDT. That's the start-time for the live stream of the 2014 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, hosted and moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planeterium.
What Is a Pterosaur? (Video)
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Our newest exhibition, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, opens on Saturday, April 5. So now seems a good time to ask—and answer—the fundamental question: What is a pterosaur, anyhow?
An Almost-Spring Weekend March 15 and 16: Butterflies and More
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Finally, it's almost spring. So it's fitting that this weekend the Museum offers the warming sights of a Gila monster and golden poison frogs in The Power of Poison and free-flying tropical butterflies in The Butterfly Conservatory.
Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein!
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Born March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, Albert Einstein (1879−1955) seems not to have anticipated how famous his theories and ideas would make him.
From the Vault: The 2010 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
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In anticipation of the 2014 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, "Selling Space," listen in on the debate from 2010, titled “Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Where Next for the Manned Space Program?”