Recently I was asked to suggest how to judge installed i?teractive multimedia productions in a possible competitIOn for the best museum interactives. The hope is that introducing criteria and holding competitions for the best would benefit museums both by rewarding those who created excellent products and providing some guidance and examples for those who want to improve the vast ~ajority of in...

Herein we describe the nests (including construction, closure, orientation, and depth of cells) of the bee Osmia (Ozbekosmia) avosetta Warncke found nesting near Antalya, Turkey, and Sepidan, Iran. Cells are unusual in that they are lined by two layers of colorful flower petals that sandwich a thin middle layer of mud. Analyses of pollen taken from scopal hairs of specimens from the Turkish sit...

E. KRZYSZCZYK,1 Department of Biology, 406 Reiss Science Building, Georgetown University, 37th and O Street NW, Washington, DC 20057, U.S.A.; A. M. KOPPS, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia and Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Winterthurers...

Museums often suffer from so‐called ‘hypercongestion’, wherein the number of visitors exceeds the capacity of the physical space of the museum. This can potentially be detrimental to the quality of visitors’ experiences, through disturbance by the behavior and presence of other visitors. Although this situation can be mitigated by managing visitors’ flow between spaces, a detailed analysis of v...

Lunar Dust Effects on Spacesuit Systems Insights from the Apollo Spacesuits Roy Christoffersen SAIC, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas John F. Lindsay The Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas Sarah K. Noble NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Mary Ann Meador Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio Joseph J. Kosmo Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas J. Anneliese Lawrence Marshall Uni...

While administering 100% nitrous oxide to his Manhattan patients for just under a minute, dental anesthetist G. Q. Colton (1814 to 1898) routinely watched patients’ complexions change with “Colton gas” from blue to black before dental extractions commenced. While hypothesizing that “overstimulation” by laughing gas led to deathlike congestion, was Shakespearean scholar Colton reminded of quotes...

546 doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001289 Instead of dance, Erato (“beloved”) governed romance as the Muse of Love Poetry. On this Italian card advertising a company cofounded by chloroform pioneer Justus von Liebig (1803 to 1873), a seated Erato (right) is pictured playing the cithara, the musical and etymological precursor to today’s guitar. If a 20th-century actor portrayed Erato poorly, that th...