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Eric Doehne

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Eric Doehne is a heritage scientist specializing in historic materials, such as ancient pigments, ceramics and stone. He holds a B.S. in geology from Haverford College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology from the University of California, Davis.

Eric is the O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art Conservation at Scripps College, in Claremont California where he teaches several interdisciplinary courses as part of a new major in Art Conservation. This program is the first undergraduate major in Art Conservation on the West Coast of the United States. A staff scientist and consultant for the Getty for many years, Dr. Doehne is also the International Chair at the University of Cergy Pontoise for the PATRIMA.org project in French cult
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The Artful Science – Art Conservation at Scripps College

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When Robin Dubin, now a senior at Scripps College, first got wind of the art conservation program, she was planning on majoring in psychology. In fact, she had never even heard of art conservation. But once she did, she switched to the new program. "I love the thought of being able to work with objects, to preserve them for future ge

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Carl Sagan
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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