Earth Day, Every Day! This year the Florida Museum, in partnership with the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute, has declared the month of April, Earth Day, Every Day! We invite you to a full month of Earth Day activities and challenges. Each day we have a suggested activity or r
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Kudzu is one of the best-known weeds in the U.S. Some consider it the poster child of invasive plants – “the vine that ate the South!” Where did it come from? How did it get here? And is it a cause for concern in Florida? 1: Kudzu comes from Asia. Kudzu, Pueraria montana, is thought to be native t
source of biofuel; and microbreweries have incorporated kudzu as a flavoring in beer
In case you missed them, we’ve compiled our feature stories from 2024.
Picture a world with no wine, bread, or beer, where many life-saving antibiotics
Whether you love them or fear them, this Children’s Book Meetup is sure to help you understand a little bit more about one of the ocean’s most well-known predators – sharks! On Saturday, December 5, 2020 the Florida Museum and the Alachua County Library District (ACLD) met to talk all things sharks
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Gainesville. Rental car smell. Deserted Miami International Airport at midnight. Uncomfortable sleep with an anonymous action film. Lima airport buzzing at dawn. Coffee. Over-air-conditioned plane. Coffee. Under-air-conditioned Iquitos airport. Non-stop cumbia beats on the bus. Non-stop motor drone
Cold beer! Sunset macaws. Great Potoo death metal screams.
We were so excited to be asked by our neighbors to throw a party this summer! Here at the UF Cultural Plaza, we sit right between the Harn Museum of Art and Phillips Center for Performing Arts, and while we’re all busy welcoming visitors and contributing to life on the University of Florida campus,
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Tourists who comb Florida’s sandy beaches for exotic shells are probably unaware that they’re also picking through bits of geologic history. Incalculable numbers of fossilized marine invertebrates—clams, snails, crabs, sand dollars and corals—pepper the Sunshine State’s beaches and terrestrial inter
carefully poured down the side of the prepared fossil void, as if pouring a glass of beer
My love of stories began at a young age. I was always asking to be told a story and before I learned to put words on paper, my parents would transcribe my tales for me so that I could illustrate them. Throughout middle and high school, I used stories as an escape from an awkward existence, and in co
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“This may look like brains but it is really strawberry.” You never know what you’re going to overhear at the Museum when scientists are visiting! It was wonderful to host our Women and Girls in Science Celebration at the Museum again after several years of virtual events. On Feb. 13, 2022, we invit
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Good books broaden our horizons and inspire new conversations, no matter where we are! We were so proud to partner with Alachua County Library District in support of the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read, a series of events building community while lifting the voices of women in science. We
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