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Knoll Luxe Exhibit at The Inaugural New York Textiles Month
Sep 13, 2016An exclusive exhibit by KnollTextiles in the Knoll New York Showroom showcases collaborations with four cutting edge fashion designers for Knoll Luxe. The exhibit is part of the inaugural New York Textiles Month (NYTM), a celebration of ...
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Sotheby's to Auction The 12-Carat "Blue Moon"
Sep 21, 2015Geneva--This fall, the largest cushion-shaped fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at auction will go up on the block at Sotheby’s, with a chance of setting a new auction record. The 12.03-carat diamond, named the “Blue ...
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Dow and Smithsonian Science Education Center to Collaborate on The Scholar Program
Jun 23, 2015The Dow Chemical Company and the Smithsonian Science Education Center announced today they will collaborate on The Dow Smithsonian Teacher Scholar Program. The program is designed to enhance teachers’ skills related to STEM (science, ...
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CBS Corporation President and CEO Leslie Moonves Will Serve as Brand Matters Keynoter
Dec 23, 2014The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) ® today announced that CBS Corporation President and CEO Leslie Moonves will serve as Brand Matters keynoter at the 2015 International CES®. The session will include an exclusive interview ...
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EPA Is Awarding $2.1 Million to 37 Organizations Nationwide to Help Protect Waters
Aug 14, 2014(PHILADELPHIA, July 17, 2014) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $2.1 million to 37 organizations nationwide to help protect and restore urban waters, improve water quality, and support community revitalization and ...
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Washington Is Scheduled to Open at The Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens
Mar 17, 2014Washington--An exhibition of remarkable pieces made by Cartier for one of the brand’s most devoted clients is scheduled to open at the Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens in Washington this summer. The exhibition, called Cartier: ...
Tags: Jewelry, diamond, sapphire necklace, Arts
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NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or Iris
Feb 27, 2014(Phys.org) —On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space, ...
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Asteroid Mining Firms Have Begun Launching a Counterattack on The Academic Findings
Jan 16, 2014Asteroid mining's prospects as a trillion-dollar industry could be mildly tarnished by a new Harvard study that found few space rocks near Earth worth mining. But asteroid mining firms have already begun launching a counterattack on the ...
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in a Finding That Overturns The Conventional View That Large Old Trees Are Unproductive
Jan 15, 2014In a finding that overturns the conventional view that large old trees are unproductive, scientists have determined that for most species, the biggest trees increase their growth rates and sequester more carbon as they age. In a letter ...
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A New Species of Big Cat That Is Most Closely Related to The Modern Day Snow Leopard
Jan 9, 2014After years of sleuthing for clues about where and when pantherine felids ("big cats") originated, a Smithsonian scientist and an international team of researchers are one step closer to understanding the evolutionary history of these ...
Tags: pantherine felids, big cats, Smithsonian scientist, evolutionary history
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Ten Years After NASA Landed Two Rovers on Mars on a 90-Day Mission
Jan 8, 2014Ten years after NASA landed two rovers on Mars on a 90-day mission, one rover is still exploring, and the project has generated hundreds of thousands of images from the Martian surface. Now the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...
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an International Team of Astronomers Has Discovered The First Earth-Mass Planet
Jan 7, 2014An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth-mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, its host star. KOI-314c is the lightest planet to have both its mass and physical size measured. Surprisingly, although ...
Tags: Earth-mass planet, KOI-314c, gaseous atmosphere, gas giants
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Bob Baddeley and Brad Zdroik Have Invented and Are Marketing Bluetipz
Jan 3, 2014Bob Baddeley and Brad Zdroik have invented and are marketing BlueTipz, a wireless transmitter that sends an alert to your smartphone when you have a fish on your ice fishing tip-up. A tip-up is a piece of equipment that's placed across an ...
Tags: Bob Baddeley, Brad Zdroik, BlueTipz, wireless transmitter, ice fishing
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Cold-Sensitive Mangrove Forests Have Expanded Dramatically Along Florida's Atlantic Coast
Jan 2, 2014Cold-sensitive mangrove forests have expanded dramatically along Florida's Atlantic Coast as the frequency of killing frosts has declined, according to a new study based on 28 years of satellite data from the University of Maryland and the ...
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Vernon Brejcha and The Magic Glass
Dec 24, 2013Nothing, it seems, makes the hand of Vernon Brejcha quiver. Not the heat from a furnace that burns a few thousand degrees, not the weight of a five-foot pole with a ball of fire attached to its end, and not even the frailty of a very, ...
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