Results for "No Bones (Blog)"
- Blog Post
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
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-017, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), Website Records, 2013
- Date: 2013
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 21-030, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), Website Records, 2013-2020
- Date: 2013 2013-2020
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 17-342, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), Website Records, 2013-2017
- Date: 2013 2013-2017
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 16-012, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), Website Records, 2013-2015
- Date: 2013 2013-2015
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Link Love: 1/16/2015
- Date: January 16, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Sabrina Sholts
- Date: June 27, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Research Anthropologist Dr. Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, uses bones to study the effects of environmental contaminants on people in the past and present, and directs the Smithsonian Institution Bio-Imaging Research Center. #Groundbreaker
Link Love: 4/5/2019
- Date: April 5, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
New Website: The Mischievous Megatherium Club!
- Date: February 6, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: "It is five o’clock, when the Megatherium takes its prey, that the most interesting characters of the animal are seen. Then it roars with delight and makes up for the hard work of the day by much fun and conduction." Folks at Home, February 17, 1863, Robert Kennicott[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5844,size=250,left]Not only is this beast intriguing as a specimen, but it is the
Did the Curator Really Do It? Popular Culture at the Smithsonian
- Date: August 1, 2013
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: How has the Smithsonian been portrayed in popular culture – fiction writing, movies and television, over the last 160 years and has its popular imaged changed?
Link Love: 07/24/2020
- Date: July 24, 2020
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Smithsonian Magazine shares reflections on John Lewis’s legacy at the Smithsonian and beyond. [via Smithsonian Magazine] The newly renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library awaits its first patrons! [via Washington Post][edan-image:id=siris_arc_389626,size=450,center]Paleontologist Lee Hall offers a handy (claw-y) guide to digging up dinosaur bones. [via Mateusz
- Blog Post
A History of Celebrating the Insect Zoo
- Date: August 23, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: When you think of the National Museum of Natural History, what comes to mind are probably inanimate things—rocks and dinosaur bones, cultural objects, and stuffed animals. But did you know that the museum has a collection of live insects? Today is the 35th anniversary of the opening of the permanent installation of the Insect Zoo, though the Zoo actually began as a temporary