Voyaging up the Hudson to Rediscover the Dutch 3 Where the Ocean Meets the Mountains 6 the New Science of Measuring Happiness
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Voyaging Up the Hudson to Rediscover the Dutch 3 Where the Ocean Meets the Mountains 6 The new science of measuring happiness has transformed self-help 9 Brainy men may be healthier men 13 Men 'suffering recession blues' 15 Infection killing cancer children 17 Blue Whales Re-establishing Former Migration Patterns 19 Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes For Integrated Circuit Heat Barriers 21 Seniors Should Watch For Drug Interactions When Taking Multiple Medications 22 How Cells Move: Cooperative Forces Boost Collective Mobility Of Cells 24 Solar-Powered Irrigation System Unveiled At U.S. National Arboretum 25 New Nanocrystals Show Potential For Cheap Lasers, New Lighting 26 Particles, Molecules Prefer Not To Mix 28 Battery-powered Vehicles To Be Revolutionized By New Technology 31 The Day The Universe Froze: New Model For Dark Energy 33 Sexually Transmitted Infections: Transistors Used To Detect Fungus Candida Albicans 36 Faster Computers Possible After Scientists Create Large-area Graphene On Copper 38 Microscope Capable Of Imaging At Double The Resolution Of Fluorescence Microscopy 40 Unique Survey Of Ocean Climate May Improve Climate Predictions 42 Chronic Ankle Pain May Be More Than Just A Sprain 43 Expression Of Infrared Fluorescence Engineered In Mammals 45 Rational Design Of Vaccines: A Long But Essential Journey 47 Ancient Trading Raft Sails Anew 48 Managing Douglas-fir Forests For Diversity 49 Neandertals Sophisticated And Fearless Hunters, New Analysis Shows 51 Working On The Railroad? 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A half-million visitors came to New York in 1909 to watch a spectacular naval parade that included a model of Hudson’s boat, de Halve Maen (the Half Moon), along with a flotilla of floats portraying an encyclopedic array of Americana, from the Statue of Liberty to Rip Van Winkle, from precolonial Indian ceremonies to the Dutch purchase of Manhattan for a reported 60 guilders. The New York Times reported that more than a million incandescent lights were outlining the city’s bridges and buildings, making “the town and its environs one glorious beam of light.” With the quadricentennial upon us, though, the planned festivities are far more modest. Who today, after all, recalls much about Hudson, apart from his river, which now seems just a part of New York geography? Even biographically, the northern Hudson Bay was far more consequential than the river: that was near where, in 1611, a mutinous crew, fed up with the explorer’s 10-month ice-bound search for a Northwest passage to Asia, set Hudson, his son John and seven others adrift in a life boat, which was never seen again. But we must take our celebrations as they come, and a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York — “Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson” — may not offer the sensations of earlier commemorations, but it is so rich in texts and rare objects from the Netherlands and local museums, and so ambitious in its explanatory material, that it restores Henry Hudson’s place in the American hall of origins. Well, maybe not Hudson himself, since so little is really known about him, and his explorations were not intrinsically remarkable. What was important was that on this particular journey, he made it possible for 3 Infoteca’s E-Journal No.70 May 2009 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila the Dutch to claim land stretching from contemporary Delaware to Connecticut, a colony that became known as New Netherland. But the exhibition makes the case that Dutch rule, which ended in 1674 as the British solidified their hold, was far more important than we generally acknowledge. This is one reason that the show has an array of public and private sponsors with interests in Dutch- American relations. New scholarly information about the period has also been emerging, as Charles T. Gehring, the director of the New Netherland Project (nnp.org), has been translating 12,000 pages of Dutch colonial records stored in Albany. A new collection of scholarly essays, “Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland,” edited by Martha Dickinson Shattuck, draws on that work and shares the exhibition’s perspective. It takes some care to work through the show, which argues the importance of Dutch rule through an accumulation of details. It was created by an international curatorial team, led by Sarah M. Henry, that included the writer Kathleen Benson and Jaap Jacobs, author of “New Netherland,” which is to be published in the fall. And its design is striking: we seem to be entering the galley of a ship bound by curved wood, with white sails hung above. Like Hudson’s vessel (a model of which is on display), the space is about 70 feet long. The exhibition’s own journey begins with a chronicle of global exploration (including a remarkable 1623 compendium of world maps begun by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator). It continues with a look at New Netherland’s institutions and the sudden growth of its mercantile elite. The show’s main section is a finely detailed examination of New Netherland’s culture (including objects linked to Indian relations and slavery in the colony), cataloging its customs and conflicts (even noting objections to a practice known as “pulling the goose,” in which “a live goose was hung upside down, while riders on horseback tried to pull off its greased head”). And it ends with an account of the 1909 revels and the lasting influence of Dutch rule. That influence, the exhibition shows, is not just a matter of archaeological evidence (though there is a swivel cannon here bearing the mark of the Dutch East India Company, which was discovered during construction of the World Trade Center in 1967). Nor is it simply a matter of names (though it is astonishing to see local areas in their original spellings, not just Breuckelen and Haarlem, but also Midwout, Nieuw Utrecht, Gavesande). The impact is also more widespread than what was most evident from the images of the 1909 celebrations, which grew out of a late-19th-century movement by distinguished families with Dutch heritage (like the Roosevelts) to associate themselves with one of the oldest and deepest strains of American authority.