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In the latest American Prospect magazine, I’ve got a review of a ...

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MUSEUMS Age of Mammals—Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Over the past 65 million years—as the earth froze, thawed, flooded, and dried—mammals spread to every continent and became big names on the stage of life. This new permanent exhibit tracks the furry group that led to us. Fossils and full-size reconstructions of a pygmy mastodon, prehistoric horses, and ancient sea creatures populate the exhibit. You can even retrace the steps of the museum’s paleontologists who discovered a new species of paleoparadoxiid, an extinct relative of the manatee that lived off the California coast 10 million to 12 million years ago. Using simulations of the scientists’ tools, you can virtually uncover the fossil, examine its jumbled bones, and piece together the skeleton. Open now...

11) Hair on your skin can hold water droplets too. A hairy leg may get sunburned more quickly than a shaved one. 17) Scientists at Oregon State University have identified vast reservoirs of water beneath the ocean floor. In fact, there may be more water under the oceans than in them. 18) Without water, ocean crust would not sink back into the earth’s mantle. There would be no plate tectonics, and our planet would probably be a lot like Venus: hellish and inert.