American Museum of Natural History
About American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. The museum collections contain about 32 million specimens of plants, animals, fungi, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, as well as specialized collections for frozen tissue and genomic and astrophysical data, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The museum occupies more than 2,500,000 ft2 (232,258 m2). AMNH has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually.
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He was at the American Museum of Natural History, and he came across some bones in the ethnographic department, which was his father's skeleton, which Peary had simply sold to the museum as a kind of display piece.
from 439: No Such Thing As A Finger Fish, 2022-08-12 at 00:54:14 · read transcript
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Is because they traveled a lot what they were doing is when they pooed it out and the nut came out on the other side they were planting avocado trees out in places that they'd never existed before and this according to the American Museum of Natural History was a very big deal because if an avocado just fell and rotted underneath a tree it would be competing for light and growth of the existing tree and may never have dispersed itself so because of.
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The other downside that we're sort of going to have in, in years to come is that all these great works of literature and everything else, we're not going to have the original handwritten notes of people doing drafts because so much of it now is on computers. The American Museum of Natural History on their website, I'll tweet a link. It's, they've got all of Darwin's papers and all his works.
No Such Thing As A Computer In The Oval Office, 2015-08-14 · listen
That's one way of looking at it. Yeah, yeah. It's not a quick heist, is it? It's quite noticeable. He took all three, I think. Yes, he did. I think, are they still to this day at the American Museum of Natural History? They're in different places, I think. Yeah. The biggest one is in the American Museum of Natural History. There's tens of tons. His name means tent, doesn't it?
439: No Such Thing As A Finger Fish, 2022-08-12 · listen
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