Geographers and social scientists—now even physicists accept that examined objects are influenced by the tools used to observe them know that objective description is a chimera.
Reference and research computers and a by-appointment room for examining objects are provided for the "focused visitor" or scholar.
She took a different approach in, offering what has been called verbal cubism and attempting with sound and rhythm to examine objects, rooms, and food.
The program enlivens a routine narrative of the Civil War by stopping now and then to examine objects that played small but telling roles.
About eight children in pink or yellow hospital gowns with animal prints listened to stories, drew pictures, examined objects and asked questions about American Indians as part of the Newark Museum's Art of Healing Hospital Museum Youth Program.
As always, gameplay involves using the stylus to move around locations, examining objects and prodding characters to reveal further clues, details or hint-coins which provide the puzzle-solving currency that all Layton games use.
Lifeline puts you in the role of a passenger trapped in a spaceship hotel's control room by alien monsters, only able to communicate with Rio, a gun-toting, headset-wearing waitress whom you can order to run, shoot, enter rooms and examine objects.
She had to sift through hordes of old probate records looking for furniture references; learn to decipher 17th-century English; persuade peevish collectors to let her in their houses to examine objects; and hope that the process would lead to fresh new information.
So it was that, at a recent dinner for benefactors of the Ashmolean, the guests were encouraged to split up into small groups: some went to view the destroyed rear building, others to hear curators present the latest acquisition emergency, put on white gloves and examine objects recently secured.
By examining objects from each place, Mr MacGregor is able to compare three different ways of constructing a highly efficient state and nimbly reassesses Athens in the context of the Persia it was fighting and the China it did not yet know.The importance of trade is another theme.
