Last night , a few hundred lucky readerfolk and museum fanboys got the chance to steal away into the American Museum of Natural History for an after hours , behind - the - scene circuit of one of the great nerd mecca in the man .
The evening ’s revelries began in the Hayden Planetarium , where we got a quick tour of the Digital Universe Atlas . Pluto drew raucous hand clapping ( the open stripe had begin by then ) , and we all did our best to sully the experience by tweeting through presentation ( check out#AMNHTweetup ) , thereby inserting phantasm of our caput into the uttermost range of the population .
I also got to tag along to the Computational Biology presentation , where Dr. Ward Wheeler , the Invertebrate Zoology Curator , speak about the brain - let on amount of computing power that ’s affect in sequencing genes , and what that information can tell us about evolutionary patterns . Then we got to see — and feel!—the AMNH ’s giant squid specimen . That ’s correct : Roll with Giz and io9 and you get to allude the Kraken .
It ’s too bad everyone could n’t get in on all the bully spell going on . The material I miss and wish I did n’t included a tour of the microscopy imaging quickness ; an astrophysics discourse ; a look into the MorphoBank , the crowdsourced database of datapoints and image of all life on Earth ; and highlights of the ways that the museum uses engineering in its exhibits .
Thanks again to the AMNH for letting us party in the museum after hours , and thanks to all the readers who add up out and made the night so peachy .
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