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      Link Love: 7/9/2010

      • Date: July 9, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="194" caption="Painting found in Yale Art Gallery's storage, Attributed to Diego Velázquez, The Education of the Virgin (detail shown), ca. 1617–18. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery."][/caption] Golly gee—sometimes some pretty incredible things are found in museum storage [via @museumnerd]. I worked peripherally on MIT’s

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    3. The Normal Rock Creek by William H. Holmes

      William Henry Holmes

      • Date: November 29, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The multi-talented William Henry Holmes contributed to the Smithsonian as an artist, explorer, geologist, archeologist and museum director.

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    5. Students who volunteered as subjects in the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test,” August 14-16, 1925. Left to right: Louise Omwake, Katherine Tait Omwake, Thelma Hunt, and Alice Haines.

      Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 1 - Insomniacs

      • Date: August 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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      The Puget Sound Biological Station

      • Date: August 25, 2022
      • Description: We’re exploring the storied history of Friday Harbor Labs, a MarineGEO site, in Washington State.

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    9. Screenshot of a short article about George earning her Ph.D. next to an image of George.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Luvenia A. George

      • Date: February 24, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      The Archives of Visibility

      • Date: February 11, 2010
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    13. Paleoanthropologist, Briana Pobiner, studies the evolution of human carnivory and is leading a National Science Foundation project to provide teachers with better materials that use human examples to teach evolution in AP high school biology classes. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Briana Pobiner

      • Date: November 19, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Paleoanthropologist, Briana Pobner, studies the evolution of human carnivores and is leading a National Science Foundation project to provide teachers with better materials that use human examples to teach evolution in AP high school biology classes. #Groundbreaker

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      Par for the Course

      • Date: July 18, 2011
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,

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    17. A man in a gray hooded sweatshirt bends over a textile-mounted piece of art on paper; he is pressing a heated metal spatula against a piece of white insulating paper to soften heat-sensitive paper as a mending technique. The art on paper is supported on a clear acrylic board suspended between two white tables.

      Some Conservator Career Advice

      • Date: July 11, 2019
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: So you want to be a conservator? In this continuation of our series on career advice, one of our conservators shares some advice for those looking to explore the professional field of cultural heritage conservation.

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      Merging Chemistry and Nutrition: Pauline Gracia Beery Mack

      • Date: March 17, 2011
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="284" caption="Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974), by Underwood & Underwood, Date unknown, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, SIA Acc. 90-105 (SIA-SIA2008-5750)."][/caption] For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be

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      Fame ... By Any Other Name

      • Date: March 20, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.

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    23. S. Dillon Ripley in pram with dog, c. 1914, photographer unknown, photographic print, Accession 93-105 - S. Dillon Ripley Papers, 1950-1989, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2013-10944.

      Happy 100th Birthday, S. Dillon Ripley

      • Date: September 20, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Celebrate the life of the eighth Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, who was born on September 20, 1913, 100 years ago today!

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