Fifth-Grader Corrects Smithsonian 'Tower of Time'

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ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
04-03-2008
Fifth-Grader Corrects Smithsonian 'Tower of Time'

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And now to a very different kind of scientific discovery, one made right here in our nation's capital. In fact, it was made inside the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Kenton Stufflebeam, a fifth-grader from Allegan, Michigan, was visiting last December when he noticed something not quite right. The museum's Tower of Time referred to the Precambrian as an era. And that, young Mr. Stufflebeam declared, ...

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