Description: The Freer Sackler Gallery’s efforts to make their large collection of squeezes (paper molds that capture the inscriptions of ancient monuments) into an easy-to-use Web resource received a nice write-up on The Atlantic’s Tech blog [originally posted on the Smithsonian Collections Blog]. David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, talks about “balancing access and
Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.
Description: As an intern with the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I developed strategies that would make our born-digital collections more accessible to the researcher and enhance discoverability.
Description: Dr. Robin L. Davisson, Professor of Molecular Physiology at Cornell University, won the Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Award for excellence in cardiovascular research from the American Heart Association and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is now part of the Smithsonian family. #Groundbreaker
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.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="295" caption="In memory, by Kevin Dooley, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] For all that’s been said about the form and content of photographic images, few of us are aware of how the ways we actually see, process, and remember photos helps to explain their power over us. Say what you will about the skills or “vision” of
Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Earth, 1971, Apollo 15, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies"][/caption] The planets and outer space used to seem far, far away from our lives down on earth. But as this slideshow reveals, by the mid-twentieth century—with Ford Galaxies in our driveways, satellite-shaped barbeque
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="Himantura signifier (Stingray), 2002, by Sandra J. Raredon, Digital Radiograph, National Museum of Natural History, Division of Fishes, Image ID# AFS 266"][/caption] The Smithsonian is hosting an online conference about problem-solving which will look at how we are working on solving some of our most complicated issues,
Description: A look at the unique journey to discovery of father-son Nobel Laureates William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg. The Braggs won the Nobel Prize in Physics 100 years ago.
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