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10 Birds You'll Love More Than Flappy Bird
Is your high score below 10? Are you constantly crashing into those nauseating green pipes? Behold Flappy Bird, a frustratingly repetitive and highly addicting flash game about a bird who depends on you to navigate through Super Mario-esque pipes. The instructions are undefined, but the game is
Weapon Wednesday: The Indian Katar, a Necessary Dress Accessory
In South Asia during the 16th to early 20th centuries all fashionable young men when visiting their ladies would want to dress at their best. This would include one very necessary dress acessory: the katar. This uniquely South Asian dagger is thought to have developed in the very southern part of
ROM ‘Minoan’ Goddess Hangout: battling with technology!
I’ve just finished a Google+ Hangout talking about the ROM ‘Minoan’ goddess with a colleague and expert in ancient ivory and gold statues, Dr. Kenneth Lapatin. It was Ken’s research and publications about the suspect Minoan ivory figurines in several museum collections that first prompted
Hands On Family Day Weekend
This year’s ROM Family Day long weekend delivers a first-hand exploration of ROM Biodiversity. In the Patrick and Barbara Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-on Biodiversity and the CIBC Discovery Gallery we're delivering a hands-on experience with three wild touch tables offering a
Weapon Wednesday: The Nugent Marathon Corinthian Helmet
The Corinthian helmet type is one of the most immediately recognisable types of helmet, romantically associated with the great heroes of Ancient Greece, even by the Ancient Greeks themselves who rapidly moved to helmet types with better visibility, but still depicted their heroes in these helmets.
Ontario tables the "Invasive Species Act": What is it, and what role should natural history museums play?
By Dave Ireland, Managing Director, ROM Biodiversity The Ontario Minister of Natural Resources, David Orazietti, joined by the Ontario Biodiversity Council, which includes representation from the ROM, introduced a new piece of legislation yesterday: the Invasive Species Act. This is unprecedented
Launch of Doodle 4 Google Exhibition
The winning doodle is part of the exhibition, Doodle 4 Google, that features the drawings of the top 73 regional finalists from across Canada from this year’s contest. This national competition challenged Canadian students from kindergarten to Grade 12 to come up with creative and inspiring ways
Lava Medals
A while back, I stopped in to the Earth Sciences Dept to look at some meteorites which needed to be photographed. While I was there, I noticed some very odd looking medallions sitting in a box on the counter. These were not the smooth precious metal medallions we see on a fairly regular basis. They
History of the White Wedding Dress
The white wedding gown worn by many brides today didn’t became popular until the Victorian Era. In fact, many contribute the popularity to Queen Victoria herself, who wore white to her wedding day. Before this time, European brides were known to wear dresses in a variety of colours and
Applify Your Museum Visit
Mobile applications have changed the way we live–they have replaced our alarm clocks, notepads, calculators, and cameras. We can have all these things in the palms of our hands via smart phones and smart gadgets. Smart phones have moved away from being just a powerful phone and web-surfing