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    Live Webcast Today, 10:30 am, "Linked Open Data in Libraries, Museums, & Archives"

    • Date: September 16, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  3. Edinburgh Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom, by Carolyn Russo, National Air and Space Museum, Image ID# WEB14831-2015.

    Link Love: 12/10/15

    • Date: December 11, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A new exhibit and publication from the National Air and Space Museum looks at the architectural beauty of airport towers with photos by Carolyn Russo. [via Weather.com]“The government must take the lead in reinvesting in the arts and humanities,” according to Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton. [via Washington Post]The Smithsonian made a 3D scan of Apollo 11 from the National

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  5. Link Love: 4/29/16

    • Date: April 29, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Cardboard architectural landmark cathouses; sacrilege or awesome? [via Design Boom] Prince's Paisley Park to become a museum. [via Hyperallergic]The bison is set to become America's national mammal. Learn how the Smithsonian helped save the American bison. [via Washington Post]A new online archive from the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore Uprising 2015 Archive Project,

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    Please Feed the Visitors!

    • Date: August 3, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7706" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="First eBook made by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media, August 2, 2010"]You [/caption] Update: You can read a follow-up post about the Anthologize project and process here. As Head of Web & New Media, I'm always looking for ways we can engage visitors with our papers, photographs,

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Ellen Stofan

    • Date: April 18, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Ellen Stofan, the first woman to be appointed Director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, was NASA's chief scientist and a leader in the effort to send humans to Mars. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Olga Linares

    • Date: February 28, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Former Senior Staff Scientist, Dr. Olga Linares, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, greatly expanded the understanding of Central American human evolution, and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1992. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme

    • Date: February 1, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, worked her way up from clerk to curator of physical anthropology researching variations of human traits from region to region over time. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Betty Meggers

    • Date: January 11, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Betty Meggers, Director of the Latin American Archaeology Program, National Museum of Natural History, and her husband, Clifford Evans, were the first archaeologists to study ancient Amazonians and they revolutionized thinking about early human activity in the Amazon rainforest. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Pam Wintle

    • Date: March 29, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: One of the 1st female moving image archivists in the U.S., Pam Wintle, founded the Human Studies Film Archives (now the National Anthropological Film Collection) in 1981 which contains over 5,000 hours of moving images spanning most of the 20th century. #Groundbreaker

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  19. Tulip Magnolias & Smithsonian Castle, courtesy of author.

    Link Love: 3/18/2016

    • Date: March 18, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Spring edition! British Library is digitizing the last surviving play script by William Shakespeare pleading for the humane treatment of refugees. [via The Guardian]Why Ben Franklin would hang out at libraries today. [via the Atlantic]Wall of Birds, a new interactive from artist Jane Kim and Cornell Lab ornithologists. A local wins the National Portrait Gallery's 2016 Outwin

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  21. 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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  23. Biological anthropologist Dr. Habiba Chirchir, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, researches the evolution of human and non-human primate bone density patterns to ascertain whether there are unique patterns of trabecular bone density among closely related species. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Habiba Chirchir

    • Date: May 20, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Biological anthropologist Dr. Habiba Chirchir, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, researches the evolution of human and non-human primate bone density patterns to ascertain whether there are unique patterns of trabecular bone density among closely related species. #Groundbreaker

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