a Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, NY 10468, USA b Department of Physics, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY 10016, USA c Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History, NY 10024, USA d LPTHE, UMR CNRS 7589, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Paris 6, 75005 Paris, France e Albert Einstein Center, Institute for Theoretical Ph...

Museum specimens collected in the past may be a valuable source of information on the response of species to climate change. This idea was tested by comparing the flowering times during the year 2003 of 229 living plants growing at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with 372 records of flowering times from 1885 to 2002 using herbarium specimens of the same individual plants. Du...

*David S. Johnson is with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Timothy M. Smeeding is the Maxwell Professor of Public Policy at Syracuse University. The opinions and conclusions are solely those of the author and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policies of SSA or any agency of the Federal Government or of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. The authors ...

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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...