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Not Just Special Effects

Flower Power

Dancing to Chopin

Famous for Egg Waste

Seeing Fully

Let Freedom Ring

ARTICLES:

The Makers of Place
Some define "the landscape" as the "built environment." Others, as "everything you can see from a certain vantage point." Still others turn it inward, to mean "a way of seeing." And is it neutral? That is, does the landscape change when women are doing the seeing? The conference "Gendered Landscapes" allowed such questions to be framed.

Flowers Out of Glass
The Glass Flowers collection is a Harvard icon, 830 species of plants made of glass, so life-like they must, eventually, wither -- and indeed, at over 100 years old, they're showing signs of glass diseases. The museum has enlisted glass scientist Carlo Pantano to find ways to care for and repair these fragile treasures.

The Nose That Glows
If you want an artificial nose that's anything like the real thing, you need a strong sniffer, a set of really good odor receptors, and some kind of a brain. Penn State researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at Tufts University, are hot on the scent. Also see the related article, Catching the Scent

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Fieldnotes: Two Worlds Between Two Empires

Research and Policy: The Family Track