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    1. Disassembled Bicycle, by Todd McLellan

      Link Love: 9/23/2016

      • Date: September 23, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A new Smithsonian traveling exhibit, When Things Come Apart, highlights the inner workings of everyday objects! [via BuzzFeed]The Hammer Museum, with the support of the Mellon Foundation, is putting the archives for several exhibits (starting with this one on African American artists) online. [via LA Times]Forensic anthropologists confirm a gruesome history at Jamestown. [via

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      Link Love: 2/9/2018

      • Date: February 9, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Smithsonian Books is publishing a pocket-sized version of "Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours," a 19th-century guide to color for artists, scientists, naturalists, and anthropologists. [via Colossal]The boundary of our known universe has expanded; a population of planets was discovered outside the Milky Way. [via WAPO]The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's director, Kim

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    5. Link Love: 02/19/2021

      • Date: February 19, 2021
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    7. Did the Curator Really Do It? Popular Culture at the Smithsonian

      • Date: August 1, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: How has the Smithsonian been portrayed in popular culture – fiction writing, movies and television, over the last 160 years and has its popular imaged changed?

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    9. Aleš Hrdlička’s Measurement Chart of Harry Houdini

      Harry Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian II: Magic by Numbers

      • Date: February 2, 2012
      • Description: Details of a Smithsonian anthropometric measurement sheet made by physical anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička for escape artist Harry Houdini in 1926.

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      Update: New Round of Scientists on the Flickr Commons

      • Date: March 8, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: As promised, we just uploaded a new batch of over twenty photographs from our Science Service collection to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. This week is heavy on the anthropology, archeology, and psychology, with a dabble of astronomy and engineering thrown in. The photos include such gems as: Drs.

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      Gender Discrimination at the Smithsonian Institution

      • Date: August 6, 2019
      • Description: A complete history of the Smithsonian Institution includes stories of employment discrimination. Here is one woman who demanded change.

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    15. Ruth Murray Underhill: Woman of the People

      • Date: March 21, 2013
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: The life of Ruth Murray Underhill, an Anthropologist, who worked with Native American tribes throughout the Southwest.

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      Them Bones

      • Date: April 27, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Look at enough photographs and it’s inevitable that, at some point, you’ll find yourself pondering mortality and photography’s relationship to death. Because the medium so effectively captures fragments of lives, events, and data that have come and gone, you’re always looking at and trying to make sense of something that’s over, finished, part of the past. Writers—particularly

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      Link Love: 7/27/2018

      • Date: July 27, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395259,size=200,center]Check out the nearly 700 newly-digitized images from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 1973. [via Bigger Picture]Speaking of the zoo, cheetah cub overload! [via CBS]The Rocky Mountain National Park published over 210 recordings online including more than 60 bird species, natural soundscapes, and wildlife vocalizations including

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    21. Black & white snapshot of Dr. Priscilla Reining smiling.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Priscilla Copeland Reining

      • Date: January 18, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Anthropologist Dr. Priscilla Copeland Reining, social anthropologist and Africanist, coordinated the Smithsonian's Urgent Anthropology Program, specialized in desertification, population, fertility, and HIV/AIDS, and pioneered the use of satellite imagery in conjunction with ethnographic data. #Groundbreaker

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    23. Girl smiling with bow in hair sitting next to Helen Keller who has her arm around her and is smiling

      Link Love: 6/22/2018

      • Date: June 22, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The American Foundation for the Blind launched the Helen Keller Archive, the world's first fully accessible digital archive comprised of more than 160,000 artifacts. [via PR Newswire]Ahead of his major retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Trevor Paglen shares his views on the social and political implication of surveillance systems and artificial

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