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nice story from Andrés: my only concern: "At Gran Sasso, the ingots will be melted into a 3-centimetre-thick lead lining that will surround the cubic CUORE detector. Before the ingots are melted down, the inscriptions on each one will be removed and sent back to Cagliari for preservation. "They are trademarks, bearing the names of various firms that extracted and traded lead," explains Donatella Salvi, an archaeologist at the Cagliari museum.

First post. Was at the MIT museum last month and saw a holographic video of a rabbit. One step closer to a 'Princess Leia'-style option for your smartphone

Continuing the museum theme... today's Wikipedia Picture of the Day. This might be *the* ultimate test of the knowledge of Dutch... can you name any of them? On the more ACT-like note: I wonder how the contemporary version would look like? P.S. Yes, the proverbs are listed on Wikipedia and yes, lots of them involve herring.

Time to clean the dust off your museumkaarts...

I'm not sure what's new here; space and fashion collide violently every day at the ACT...

read this

" However, Dr. Konig also found copper vases plated with silver in the Baghdad Museum, excavated from !!!Sumerian!!! sites in southern Iraq, dating back to at least 2500 BCE. When the vases were lightly tapped, a blue patina or film separated from the surface, which is characteristic of silver electroplated onto copper base. It would appear then that the Parthians inherited their batteries from one of the earliest known civilizations." ... they just mistyped the name ...

Read before you go to Rijksmuseum;) My fav quote though: "US officials said they had no explanation for the Dutch discovery." I could find one or two...

nice story indeed :-)