UAF in the news: Week of July 24, 2006

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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07/28/06

Natural phenomena drive listening gallery at UA museum
Anchorage Daily News, Associated Press, Montreal Gazette
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - When the next big earthquake hits, John Luther Adams jokes, he’ll be running into the University of Alaska Museum of the North while everyone else runs out. Read more ...

Alaska museum reflects drama of landscape
CNN, USA today and multiple other publications
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- The museum on the hill looks like breaching whales. Or maybe the swooping white walls bring to mind shimmering northern lights. Or ships passing. Or the Earth’s great tectonic plates shoved up and over one another. Read more ...

CSI: Fairbanks: Students investigate grisly mock crime
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Yellow police tape crisscrossed the front door of an apartment in the Culter Complex at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on Wednesday. Read more ...

Leaf rollers, scourge of a warm summer
Anchorage Daily News
In yards around the area, legions of slime-green caterpillars are rappelling from branches on micro-thin webs and wrapping leaves into what looks like tiny bug burritos. Read more ...

Paleolithic Juvenilia
Scientific American
Few images fire the imagination like Paleolithic cave paintings, part of the scant physical record left by humans who lived more than 10,000 years ago. To some scholars, this ancient art represents the handiwork of shamans; others detect traces of initiation rites or trancelike states. A new interpretation offers a more prosaic explanation for cave art: the expression of adolescent boys’ preoccupation with hunting and sex. Read more ...

Hunters as artists
Rutland Herald
Paleolithic cave paintings by humans who lived more than 10,000 years ago have long attracted the attention of scholars. Most opinion has been that the paintings were the work of shamans, primitive priests similar to witch doctors, who drew them to invoke magic relationships with the real animals being hunted. Read more ...

Biologist sees value in unchanged landscape
SITNews
"ÂGeorge Schaller has studied gorillas in Rwanda, lions on the Serengeti, pandas in China, antelope in Tibet, and many other animals in wild places around the planet, but he thinks the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is unique among them. He recently visited there for the first time in half a century. Read more ...

Morning quake was only 4.8, but felt bigger
Anchorage Daily News
An early-morning earthquake jolted Anchorage awake Thursday, rocking buildings, rattling windows and shocking slumbering locals and visitors during the height of Alaska’s busy tourist season. Read more ...