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Novum #4 PHANTASMAGORIA:  (10/22/11) @ Avenue 50 Studio With Angela Frocillo, Colin Dickey, Kate Durbin, Sara Finnerty, Daniel Corral & James Hager. Plus Jen Karmin & David Emanuel. (Event Info) Check out photos from the event here:

Strophe’s papers from the &NOW Conference: The Mad Science of Narrative

via BoingBoing & Public School Check out these slightly creepy but also supremely fascinating photos of Vaudeville Ventriloquist Dummies. Full post here.

ART FOR ALL: Promoting Cultural Vitality in Our Communities (6/18/11) @ Avenue 50 Studio With Evelyn Serrano / Elizabeth Chin / Alex and A’misa Chiu (Event Info) What an incredible and truly inspiring event. Thanks so much to all our presenters and to all those who came and helped make this one of our best events yet. It was clear how inspired we all left by the presenters and their involvement in making and spreading art and culture to the areas in our communities that thirst  for it the most. The presenters, and our audience, certainly embodied the best of what we …

Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He’s found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he’s taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a “Chickenosaurus”. (Talk on TED website)