Results for "Smithsonian (Television program)"
Link Love: 12/8/2017
- Date: December 8, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The man who created the Smithsonian's contemporary visual identity system, Ivan Chermayeff, died this week. Here's more on the history of the Smithsonian's identity. [via Smithsonian Magazine]If you're a high school student interested in design, you have until February 12 to enter the Cooper Hewitt's competition for design solutions to make the everyday more accessible! Also
Link Love: 10/26/2012
- Date: October 26, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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.
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Women in Science
- Date: March 14, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: You can participate in our second Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the goal of increasing the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia!
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Made You Look!!!
- Date: July 8, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7261" align="alignleft" width="430" caption="Advertisement on Fifth Avenue in New York City, 2010, Photo courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] You’ve probably noticed, in recent years, that in order to attract shoppers’ attention retail establishments have been filling both exterior and interior display spaces with big, colorful, and evocative
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Earth Day
- Date: April 19, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In September 1989 the Smithsonian sponsored a discussion between scientists and journalists about how the media can responsibly report on environmental issues.
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Documenting the Smithsonian’s Pandemic Response
- Date: March 16, 2021
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Smithsonian's Photo Summit
- Date: October 12, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Installation View of Smithsonian Photography Exhibition Art Section, by Thomas Smillie, c.
Science Service, Up Close: Technology and Political Conventions
- Date: July 19, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In a Presidential election year, political news coverage can sometimes seem almost too instantaneous and continuous. Thanks to smartphones with cameras and microphones, journalists and citizens can relay images and sound from almost anywhere inside campaign activities. There was a time, however, when live broadcasting from political conventions and rallies was novel.Starting
Rafinesque, Ready for a Close-Up
- Date: December 13, 2018
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: When a television channel asks to film our collections, we want to show them at their best. Read how we accommodate media requests while keeping our collections safe.
There Are Prizes . . . and There Are Winners
- Date: March 6, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Nobel prizes are not the only rewards for work improving public health and making the world a better place.
The Smithsonian's Top 6 Archives Myths
- Date: October 26, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: The top five myths about the archives at the Smithsonian Institution.