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  1. Five Smithsonian employees provide answers to the question: What is your family’s signature Thanksgiving dish?

    The Smithsonian Point of View: Pumpkin Pie, Pez, and Pastrami

    • Date: November 28, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Get to know some Smithsonian staff, from their favorite holiday dishes to their dream celebrity dinner guests, through a former series in The Torch.

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    Technology Throwback Thursday: Snail Mail and Word Processors

    • Date: July 10, 2014
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A brief look at the evolution of public inquiries at the Smithsonian.

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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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    Wish You Were Here?

    • Date: December 1, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3071" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Spiral Galaxy Messier 81 (M81), 2003, Spitzer Space Telescope / IRAC, NASA / JPL-Caltech / S. Willner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA"][/caption] You may in fact be, or just feel like, a big shot down here on earth. But, ever since airborne cameras started to photograph our little planet from above, and once they

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    Women's History Month on the Flickr Commons: A Final Batch

    • Date: March 23, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: We've just added a final batch of photographs to our "Science Service" set on the Flickr Commons in honor of Women's History Month, and there are some interesting new ladies there. You might assume that since the images are from Science Service, they would only feature scientists. However, Science Service, a news service designed to popularize science and to disseminate

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    “Dependent upon the Kindness of Strangers”: Volunteers and the Smithsonian

    • Date: April 10, 2012
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the contributions volunteers have made at the Archives and across the Smithsonian.

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    & is for Ampersand

    • Date: September 8, 2020
    • Description: Today we honor the glyph with an incredibly long name that used to shorten an incredibly short word.

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    Beautiful Dreamers

    • Date: December 15, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3320" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Haggard Family II, February 2005, courtesy of Sandy Puc’ and the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation."][/caption] When we began work on click!, it seemed obvious that somehow, someway, we’d have to find someone to explore how photography impacts our encounters with death. Many writers about

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    Can Buildings Stack Up to the Images Made of Them?

    • Date: November 18, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3043" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Photograph of the Ames Monument, Wyoming, courtesy Phil Patton."][/caption] Looking at an illustrated real estate listing or brochure, have you ever been mesmerized by a wide angle and luxurious photograph of what you suspect is, in fact, a tiny studio apartment? Have you ever had the experience where all

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  19. The damaged nudibranch field book

    Coming Soon to the Transcription Center: Department of Invertebrate Zoology

    • Date: November 15, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See what’s in store for the Transcription Center from the invertebrate zoology collections!

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  21. Effie Kapsalis pictured with Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough.

    Effie Kapsalis Wins the Smithsonian Secretary’s Innovative Spirit Award

    • Date: November 1, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    With Eyes (and Other Data Receptors) Open Wide

    • Date: May 18, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: In a storm of reporting, hundreds of articles published online and in print over the past couple of days, have focused attention on a story that touched on issues both photographic and archival.

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