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    1. The World Is Yours: Rockets and Planets

      • Date: February 18, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Rockets and Planets.”

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      Roxie Laybourne: A Bird of Many Feathers

      • Date: March 24, 2016
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: A brief biographical sketch of Roxie Laybourne, an Ornithologist who specialized in feather identification and pioneered the field of forensic ornithology.

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      The Archives’ Video Digitization Equipment Gets an Upgrade

      • Date: April 2, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: The Archives recently upgraded its video digitization equipment to an open source, cost effective solution.

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      Less is More With Compressed Scanning

      • Date: March 3, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Window Necklace, by Hoong Wei Long, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] For those who continue to believe that bigger is better—that you’re better off, for example, the more megapixels your digital camera delivers—a recent article by Jordan Ellenberg in WIRED magazine suggests the opposite may be true.

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    9. Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ernest William Barnes, London, 1931. Left to Right: astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (1894-1966), University of Louvain, Belgium; British physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940); British astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950); and mathematician and theologian Ernest William Barnes (1874-1953), Anglican Bishop of Birmingham. They were appearing together at a British A

      Science Service, Up Close: Considering the Universe

      • Date: September 24, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: At a September 27, 1931, symposium about the evolution of the universe, Watson Davis photographed astronomer Abbé Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, and Anglican bishop and mathematician Ernest William Barnes.

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      Digital Video Preservation: Identifying Containers and Codecs

      • Date: July 26, 2011
      • Description: In addition to a rich collection of analog moving image material currently being digitized, the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) accessions large quantities of born-digital video from various hard drives, CDs, DVDs, and websites across the Institution. And just as digitization is a method of preserving moving image content before it degrades on an analog carrier, digital

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      The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

      • Date: January 9, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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    15. Dan Kimball adjusting the telescope at the Maria Mitchell Observatory prior to the eclipse.

      Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses

      • Date: August 22, 2017
      • Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.

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