Results for "Adventures in science (Radio program)"
Celebrating National Radio Day
- Date: August 18, 2022
- Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website
- Date: October 5, 2021
- Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
Link Love: 4/6/2012
- Date: April 6, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Hot Topics in Archival Research, Winter 2018
- Date: January 16, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10581,size=200,left]Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been
Adventures in Adopt-a-Book
- Date: April 21, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Hear from Archives staff about some of the items up for “adoption” at the 2022 Adopt-a-Book salons and what makes them so special.
Scientific Sweethearts: Research Couples in the Archives
- Date: February 11, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: A look at the life and work of husband and wife Smithsonian scientists researching in the field.
Documenting a Geologist's Adventures
- Date: December 11, 2012
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired the papers of Ursula Marvin, a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory geologist who has studied meteorites and lunar samples.
Hot Topics: Edible Seaweed and Passenger Pigeons
- Date: April 9, 2013
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Hearing The World Is Yours
- Date: May 14, 2020
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Take a listen to clips from an episode of The World Is Yours.
Field Book Narratives of Volcanologist James F. Luhr
- Date: August 18, 2016
- Description: A look into the field books of volcanologist James F. Luhr.
How I Spent My Summer: Interning as a Virtual Web Archivist
- Date: August 4, 2022
- Description: Virtually join along with me on my web and social media archiving adventure using web archiving services, such as Archive-It.
The Arctic Adventures of Neal Griffith Smith
- Date: December 21, 2017
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Today is the first day of winter. Not ready for the cold weather? It could always be worse. Ornithologist (and future tropical biologist) Neal Griffith Smith once wrote in his journal:"Still pensil [sic]. Well, I've got time and temperature to write. Just sharpened the pensil with a snow knife. We are parked smack in the middle of Southampton [Island] in a bloody windstorm. It