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Brunswick ME
February 23, 2012, 5:17 am
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wind speed: 4 mph SSW
 

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1909 — Commander Robert Peary, Class of 1877, and his party depart the USS Roosevelt to make the remainder of the journey to the North Pole by dogsled.

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Early Risers See Network Shout-Out for Museum’s Chinese Bronzes (Early Today)

Early birds and insomniacs got to see a brief Bowdoin College Museum of Art shout-out on NBC’s Early Today show Jan. 4.

NBC meteorologist Bill Karins (who worked in Maine in the early 2000s) highlighted the Museum’s Along the Yangzi River, an exhibition of Chinese bronzes, as the “event of the day” during a weather segment.

The network plug came as the exhibition was wrapping up; you can read about Along the Yangzi and its reviews hereEarly Today airs on NBC stations at 4 a.m.

The Museum exhibition Insight Out: Exploring Gifts of Art from Private Collectors, celebrating the contributions of private art collectors to Bowdoin since the bequest of James Bowdoin III in 1811, opens January 24, 2012.

Polar Bear Scoreboard

 

Women’s Ice Hockey — Kaitlin O’Brien’s second goal of the season came with under three minutes to play to give the Saint Anselm women’s ice hockey team a 2-1 win over Bowdoin Tuesday evening.

27 Ways to Rule the Gym This New Year (Wall Street Journal)

Jan Pierson '74 earns his chocolate milk, while another gym rat "stretches" in the background. Photo by Brian Wedge '97.

 

 

Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay presents his funny-’cause-it’s-true take on the popular annual New Year’s Resolution to hit the gym.

Photo: Polar Bears at Play (Instagram)

Photo shared by Good Morning America/ABC News on Instagram.

 

 

“Friend or foe?” asks the ABC News program Good Morning America. GMA shares this photo of Polar Bears caught playing (fighting?) in Manitoba, Canada, using Instagram, the free photo-sharing application, that, in an homage to the old Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid cameras, frames images into a square shape, in contrast to the 3:2 aspect ratio we’ve come to expect from cellphone photography.