<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f1f71291-9c3f-4e84-a811-fbf55c677f21/A0955662-A50C-4920-B1EA-8AE73804ABAE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> Museums Give Science the Spark of Life </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/355C5A63-6305-4611-83F6-ABB86EC39C0A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html"><P class="caption"> <STRONG>HANDS ON</STRONG> Small visitors indulge their curiosity at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/12/28/nyregion/1228muse_index.html">More Photos &gt;</A> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html"><P>THE days are shorter, and the weekends chillier. What’s a family to do? </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html"><P>Hey, kids! Let’s go to a science museum!</P><P>Right. It’s hard enough to blast youngsters out of the house, considering the cocooning comforts of video games and “SpongeBob Squarepants.” And how can a museum compete with mall-encased movie houses or indoor arenas with batting cages and rock climbing</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/A56F273D-5F1A-47E8-AA85-5F4C9FAE9C67" alt="The Science of Winter Break" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html"><H2> <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/12/28/nyregion/1228muse_index.html">The Science of Winter Break</A> </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/5ECE5E34-9BBA-4EC2-8A04-016ECBBD9253" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html"><P>Pretty well, it seems. Musty, hands-off museums of decades ago have been brought up to date, with varying degrees of success, to become child-friendlier, with plenty of interactivity and play areas for the smallest visitors. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/long-island/28Rmuse.html"><P class="caption"> Clockwise from right, the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport and at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers. <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/12/28/nyregion/1228muse_index.html">More Photos »</A> </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A0955662-A50C-4920-B1EA-8AE73804ABAE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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