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FW: April Meeting of Paleontological Society of Washington
Attention D.C. area dinosaur community:
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From: Ralph Chapman [mailto:Chapman.Ralph@NMNH.SI.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:26 PM
To: tholtz@geol.umd.edu
Subject: April Meeting of Paleontological Society of Washington
The Paleontological Society of Washington
PRESENTS
And now for something completely different ...
"Murder in the Museum: A Case of Natural Selection?"
by
Sally Shelton
Collections Officer, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution;
Member, Editorial Board, Annals of Improbable Research
Since 1993, Sally and several colleagues have been tracking down and
analyzing how museums and museum people fare in popular culture (mysteries
and other fiction, movies, television, board games and kid-lit). The
results? Find out who's most likely to kill or be killed in museums,
correlated by job type; what a living museum person who wants to stay that
way must never wear; why paleontological exhibits in the movies are required
to fall down as part of the plot; and other amazing stereotypes that
ultimately influence the public perception of museums. Chosen as one of
Heisenberg Certainty Lectures at the Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 7:30 PM
Cooper Room - National Museum of Natural History
Meet at the Constitution Avenue entrance at 5:30 PM to join us for dinner.
Non-SI Visitors to be escorted up to the room at 7:00 & 7:25
We also will accept nominations for new officers at this meeting. Voting
will be at the May meeting.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland College Park Scholars
College Park, MD 20742
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
Phone: 301-405-4084 Email: tholtz@geol.umd.edu
Fax (Geol): 301-314-9661 Fax (CPS-ELT): 301-405-0796