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The Exploratium Covers Total Solar Eclipse with Live Coverage

For the fifth time, the Exploratorium is providing live webcast coverage of a total solar ecplipse by sending their special team to a remote area of northwestern China near the Mongolian border (see details on how they broadcast an eclipse). This will take place Friday, August 1, 2008.

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Digital Morphology Library

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The Digital Morphology library at the University of Texas at Austin is a dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens.

Digital Morphology, part of the National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative, develops and serves unique 2D and 3D visualizations of the internal and external structure of living and extinct vertebrates, and a growing number of invertebrates. This unique online resource contains nearly a terabyte of imagery of natural history specimens that are important to education and central to ongoing cutting-edge research efforts.

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