Results for "American Academy of Arts and Sciences"
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Science Service, Up Close: Tips for Writers – Running Starts and Clean Plates
- Date: February 19, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: As the Director of Science Service, chemist Edwin Emery Slosson not only edited the submissions of his staff and external contributors but he also dispensed writing tips that remain timely today.
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Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford
- Date: March 11, 2014
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.
Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927
- Date: February 2, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.
Science Service, Up Close: Covering Eclipses, Near and Far
- Date: August 15, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations.
Science Service, Up Close: Science Reporters on the Hunt
- Date: April 18, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Photographs from the Science Service collections preserve behind-the-scenes glimpses of the newsgathering process for science reporters.
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Publicity, Politics, and Physics
- Date: March 10, 2010
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major. Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult. Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum. Its people and discoveries coexisted with
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Digitized Photos and Back Stories
- Date: October 22, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.
Science Service, Up Close: Herbert Clark Hoover and Radio, August 11, 1928
- Date: August 11, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Photos in the Science Service collection documenting Herbert Hoover's historic acceptance of the Presidential nomination with live radio coverage.
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Science Service, Up Close: "Stealth Authors" and An Appreciation of Honesty
- Date: March 24, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: "Stealth Authors" and an appreciation of honesty when it came to women writers of science in the early 20th century.
Science Service, Up Close: Hallie Jenkins, On the Road, On Her Own Terms
- Date: March 16, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In January 1926, Science Service took a chance on smart, plucky Hallie Jenkins, hiring the 27-year-old as their sales representative. During the following months, Jenkins traveled on her own throughout the Midwest, selling science to newspapers large and small. By the end of the year, she become the organization’s sales and advertising manager.
90th Anniversary of the Scopes Trial
- Date: July 9, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The 1925 anti-evolution trial of John Thomas Scopes is described through photographs by Watson Davis and William Silverman.
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Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse
- Date: January 24, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.