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Out of the Blue: A Punderful Session About Out-of-the-Box Thinking

By Juliana Venegas

I love a good pun, so when I saw a session at the 2018 Annual Meeting and Museum Expo about whales and puns, I was hooked! The session began with an emotional video about nine blue whales that died in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. People …

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