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    1. Two men are seated at a table, A microphone and a water pitcher is in between them.

      Celebrating National Radio Day

      • Date: August 18, 2022
      • Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Herbert Clark Hoover and Radio, August 11, 1928

      • Date: August 11, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Photos in the Science Service collection documenting Herbert Hoover's historic acceptance of the Presidential nomination with live radio coverage.

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      Seeing the Invisible (Part 2)

      • Date: June 1, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Seeing the Invisible

      • Date: May 11, 2009
      • Description: Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. This is the first installment from Megan Watzke, Press Officer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Most people think of a telescope as something in a backyard or the dome at the local planetarium. And it’s true that many telescopes are designed to

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    9. -ray of the skull of Science Service astronomy editor James Stokley

      Science Service, Up Close: Covering Eclipses, Near and Far

      • Date: August 15, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations.

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    11. 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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      Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse

      • Date: January 24, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.

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