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The Polar Museum: news blog. Posts Tagged ‘interactive’. ... Wednesday, September 14th, 2016. I mentioned in my original blog post was that I’ve had one or two ideas about how the Museum could better communicate modern Polar science.

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The Polar Museum: news blog. Posts Tagged ‘PhD’. ... Saturday, May 27th, 2017. This blog post is written by PhD student Samuel Cook.